Sen. Ron Johnson: 'If We Want To Defeat The Deep State, Stop Funding It!'

Posted • March 30, 2025: "I don't think Trump voters expected Republicans to continue spending at Biden's spending levels," Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin) tweets. "If we want to defeat the deep state, stop funding it!" The point being made by Sen. Johnson should be heard by other Republicans in Congress as a blaring warning siren that one key reason they are in the positions they currently occupy is to stop wasteful and reckless federal government spending. There exists a limit to the amount of national spending that can be sustained. What exactly the limit is may not be clearly visible or precisely definable, at least not at the current moment, but it exists. A corporate checking account balance precisely defines the limit beyond which a company cannot spend without the consequence of borrowing.

A speed limit sign on the side of a road precisely defines with clear visibility the posted lawful limit of speed beyond which a driver may subject himself to the consequence of being ticketed. High inflation continues to damage the economy, as indicated by the latest Consumer Price Index reading for all items of 2.8 percent, higher than the Federal Reserve's oft-stated 2 percent goal for inflation. The national debt continues to balloon, as the Treasury Department states Total Public Debt Outstanding as more than $36.2 trillion as of March 27, 2025. Stuffed-pig spending legislation seems to be the rule without exception, such as the counterintuitively entitled "Inflation Reduction Act." (…)

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