Sen Ron Johnson got his Scrooge on early this year when he appeared on Fox with Maria Barfiromo to lie about things like the Affordable Care Act and the filibuster. However, he did take the time to point out that the government couldn't possibly afford Trump's plan to give Americans a $2,000 tax refund using the tariff money that Americans have been paying for months.
BARFIROMO: So what about these $2,000 checks that the president has been talking about with that fly in terms of passing the Congress, or do you expect that the only way that could actually see the light of day is through a second reconciliation package?
ROJO: We're $30 trillion in debt. We've averaged $1.9 trillion deficits over the last five years. Over the next 10 years, the projections are about $26 trillion in cumulati

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