Administrations can ignore it with impunity. Why is that? Because Congress has allowed its oversight role to completely atrophy.
Ron Johnson
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Ron Harold Johnson is an American businessman and politician currently serving as the junior United States senator from Wisconsin, a position he has held since January 3, 2011. A member of the Republican Party, Johnson has focused on issues such as fiscal responsibility, healthcare reform, and government accountability during his tenure in the Senate. He has been an outspoken advocate for reducing the federal deficit and has often emphasized the need for economic growth through private sector initiatives.
Administrations can ignore it with impunity. Why is that? Because Congress has allowed its oversight role to completely atrophy.
I want to point out we have security clearances. It does not apply to us, so that is not an excuse for the administration not to turn classified material over to us.
So, you're proud of a 10-year budget that never reduces the deficit, never brings it down below basically $1.5 trillion. You're proud of that work?
I mean it's a fantasy if you make the rich pay their fair share, and by the way, the top 1 percent garner about 20 percent of the income and pay about 40 percent of the income tax.
I mean it's a fantasy if you make the rich pay their fair share, and by the way, the top 1 percent garner about 20 percent of the income and pay about 40 percent of the income tax.
So, you're proud of a 10-year budget that never reduces the deficit, never brings it down below basically $1.5 trillion. You're proud of that work?
It's worth 85 cents. That is driving an awful lot of the numbers on your budget there.
Unfortunately, this budget is another lost opportunity for the President to demonstrate leadership on pressing fiscal challenges.
If you want to implement European-sized government, you'll need to impose European-styled taxes.
I challenge them to set a date to mark this budget up. It won't happen because even most Democrats wouldn't vote for this calamity.
So, you're proud of a 10-year budget that never reduces the deficit, never brings it down below basically $1.5 trillion. You're proud of that work?
I mean it's a fantasy if you make the rich pay their fair share, and by the way, the top 1 percent garner about 20 percent of the income and pay about 40 percent of the income tax.
We have a completely broken healthcare financing system which incentivizes specialties, that disincentivizes primary care physicians.
I think the solution here is we have to put physicians again at the top of the treatment pyramid.





