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Ron Johnson: “If we do not want to pay creditors over the next 30 years, $50 trillion interest on the debt, we have to address Social…”

On the recordJanuary 23, 2017
If we do not want to pay creditors over the next 30 years, $50 trillion interest on the debt, we have to address Social Security and Medicare.
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Ron Johnson
Republican · Wisconsin

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Johnson stresses the need to reform Social Security and Medicare to manage debt.

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