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Tammy Baldwin: “My senior colleague is a deficit hawk, he says, but yet…”

Featuring: Tammy Baldwin, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

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Not for Ron Johnson, apparently. Not enough to take food stock stamps away from 3 million people. Is it not enough to add $3.5 trillion to the debt? My senior colleague is a deficit hawk, he says, but yet voted for [a bill that increased the deficit]. that. And whoopsie daisy, he's figured out that this wasn't such a deficit hawk like vote to take in approving that bill. (07:03–07:10)

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Asserts that a colleague who claims to be a deficit hawk voted for a bill that increased the deficit.

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