Sen. Ron Johnson: What’s Really in the “Big Beautiful Bill,” and Uncovering the Truth About 9-11
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What questions did Sen. Ron Johnson raise about 9-11?
You tried the other day to raise science-based questions about 9-11, and you asked, Building 7 was never hit by a plane. Why did it fall down in exactly the same way the first two towers did?
How financially ignorant is Congress?
156 witnesses, you know, first responders saying they heard explosions before the buildings came down. There was never a steel building that ever collapsed because of a fire.
The vaccine injured. So these would be American citizens who obeyed their government and took a shot that they were required to take and then were injured by or killed by that shot.
To date worldwide, there's over 38,000 deaths associated with COVID vaccine. 24% of those to date either occur on the date of vaccination or within one or two days. We're right now burning about a half a trillion dollars a quarter just to get us by into next year. That should shock everybody. That's my whole purpose here. We haven't talked about the numbers. We haven't put this in context of the big mess we're in, the deep hole we've dug ourselves. And I'm just going to force that debate.
So you told me something that made me laugh at breakfast in a dark way, which is that none of or very few of the people you work with, your colleagues, whose job it is to appropriate money to run the U.S. government, have any idea how much they're appropriating. They don't know what the numbers are. Can you walk us through a description of the ignorance of Congress when it comes to numbers?
So you want me to throw my colleagues under the bus?
It was just like, I was amazed by what you told me.
Of the dollars they appropriate, they know that. But that's only 25% of the budget. The story I told you at breakfast is a couple of years ago. This was after the COVID spending spree, but we continued on that spending spree. We were in the midst of an omnibus spending debate. And this is where McConnell was doing a deal with Schumer on a massive omnibus spending bill.
What happens if the current spending trajectory continues?
And we were going to violate, for the first time, our conference's position on earmarks. You know, our conference's position is we do not accept earmarks. All of a sudden, the Republican Senate is going to be accepting earmarks. So... I got up in front of the group. I'm generally the skunk in the room or the kid who says the emperor has no clothes. I just asked my colleagues, hey, anybody know how much we spent last year in total? Dead silence. I went out to the Washington press corps. By which you meant what we spent last year. In total, the federal government, what the federal government spent in total. Just the bottom line number. If anybody knew, they didn't volunteer. And I went out to the Washington Press Corps, asked them the same question. And one of the reporters said, well, it's over a trillion dollars. Now, that's just discretionary spending. That's about 25% of the budget. I mean, total spending. The answer is, I think, $6.3 trillion. Understand, the federal government is the largest financial entity in the world.
We, in theory, are the 535 members of the board of directors. And nobody really knows in total how much the federal government spent because we never talk about it. And... As that relates to the current— What a weird thing not to talk about, since that's your job. But that's how it's been set up. Discretionary, which we appropriate, and then mandatory. That just gets spent. It's on automatic pilot. So it's out of sight, it's out of mind, and it's completely out of control.
May I ask how that works? So I thought the Constitution gave the Congress the responsibility, the duty, to appropriate the money. Yeah.
So Congress has written laws like the Social Security law, then Medicare and Medicaid, and they call those entitlements. So they're not annually appropriated. It's just you set up a law saying if you qualify, you get X number of dollars. So it's on automatic pilot.
Are we in a debt crisis?
And there's no cap on that spending?
No, none. You qualify, you get it. So whatever it takes. What has happened over the years is in addition to Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid, they've slid what should be, in my mind, discretionary spending into mandatory. And so I'm the guy that pointed out the conference.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What questions did Sen. Ron Johnson raise about 9-11?
0:00–0:10
2
How financially ignorant is Congress?
0:10–2:14
3
What happens if the current spending trajectory continues?
2:14–4:11
4
Are we in a debt crisis?
4:11–7:57
5
What would happen if we fall into a massive debt crisis?
7:57–9:08
6
What is the truth about the 'Big Beautiful Bill'?
9:08–2:01:36
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