Senator Ron Johnson on Republicans cutting spending: "Right now we're blowing it."
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Brief Summary
Political leaders must address issues now to maintain credibility and majority control by 2027.
Key points
- The Importance of Action. A call to action about solving problems instead of just maintaining power.
- A Warning About the Future. Concern over losing the House and Senate due to inaction on pressing issues.
Transcript
I've heard people rationalize this and I mean important people rationalize, you know, just go along with this. This is what we have to do to win the majority, maintain the majority in the House in 2027, right? But what good is a majority if you literally don't solve the problems that you're aware of? Oh, so when we have the majority in 2027, then we're going to actually turn the spending curve down. That's when we're going to return to prepandemic level spending. I don't buy it. This is our one opportunity and right now we're blowing it and I'm going to do everything I can to make sure we don't blow it. I don't discount the fact that we may lose the House, we may lose the
Senate, but I would say we do that because we're not solving these problems. We're going to be looked at as unserious. Our base is going to go, "Why did we elect you guys? You didn't take the bull by the horns. You didn't solve this problem. You're really no better than Democrats." I think we have to be concerned about
