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Watching the Federal Deficit Grow

Watching the Federal Deficit Grow

Congressman Dusty Johnson Photo: WNAX


The Congressional Budget Office is reporting that the federal government will spend over six trillion dollars in the fiscal year that ends September 30th.

South Dakota Congressman Dusty Johnson says that has to be taken seriously…

Johnson who is co-sponsoring a bipartisan stimulus plan, says any future economic stimulus plan has to take that rising deficit into account…..

Johnson says they have to focus on the need across the country…

The plan Johnson has joined would spend about one point two trillion dollars.

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