Johnson on Tax Cuts: If You Go Line by Line, You Will Find Hundreds of Billions of Dollars That No One Would Notice Once Eliminated

RUSH EXCERPT:
JOHNSON: "Well, first of all, you take a different approach. You don‘t start at $7 trillion with completely unjustified level spending, and then subject yourself to death by a thousand cuts. You start with a reasonable pre-pandemic level spending. You‘ve heard people talk about zero based budgeting. I‘m talking about a budget of 5.5 to 6.5 trillion. Those are options from Clinton, Obama and Trump, where you just take their actual outlays, plus them up by population growth and inflation, leaving Social Security, Medicare and interest untouched. That would leave you somewhere between 5.5 and $6.5 trillion. So you start there, but you have to do the work and you need the time to do the work. I have to believe when you go through $7,000 billion of spending, if you go by it line by line, like doge has done, you will find hundreds of billions of dollars. And I‘ve proven this in terms of where the spending occurs, hundreds of billions of dollars of spending. If you eliminate, no one would even notice it other than the grifters who are sucking down the waste, fraud and abuse."