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Welcome to the Tudor Dixon podcast.

I am pleased to say that we have the United States Senator for Wisconsin back here.

Senator Ron Johnson, thank you so much for joining me.

So, Tudor, hope you're doing well.

I am.

So you have had quite a busy last few weeks going through the one big, beautiful bill.

And I wanted to talk to you about it because I know you have been fighting against some of the things in the bill.

And you say that you believe you'll have another bite at the apple.

So I wanted to go through exactly what that means and what the American people would like to know from the inside from you.

It's not so much about what's in the bill. It's much more about what wasn't in the bill.

I mean, the major components of the bill I absolutely agreed with. We had to prevent a massive

automatic tax increase, avoid default. Again, the president took over for, you know, with all these messes

left behind by the Democrats, the open borders, so we needed border funding, raging lords.

And then, of course, that we need defense funding. But but then the fact that Biden and

Democrats, in their four years in office, they average deficits of $1.9 trillion.

And to put that in perspective, the seven years prior to COVID, we averaged deficits of $660 billion.

It's still way too high, but any rational human being, any responsible president and

members of Congress would have returned to a reasonable pre-pandemic level spending once

employment returned to normal and the economypandemic level spending once employment

returned to normal and the economy was roaring back. But that's how Democrats did. Instead, they sparked

40-year high inflation. And again, just establish this spending level and this deficit levels is the

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