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Ron Johnson: “You go back to Bill Clinton, it's 1.3 trillion total.”

Featuring: Ron Johnson, Republican | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

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Senator Ron Johnson Discusses Opposition to Trump's Tax Bill and Fiscal Concerns

Published | Video Starts at 06:58

If you go back to Obama in 2014, it's 578. Excluding Medicaid it's 803 billion. Again, this is spending above and beyond actual outlays. Above and beyond inflate and fully inflated for population inflation. You go back to Bill Clinton, it's 1.3 trillion total. So there is how easily it's all over. It's across the board. It's, it's in every spending category because we don't control it. (06:58–07:02)

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Asserts that spending above Bill Clinton's levels is $1.3 trillion total.

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