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Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) sparred with White House health policy adviser Zeke Emanuel over the costs of the president's signature health care reform during a segment on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" Monday, saying it was "an utter fiction that this was going to reduce the deficit."

"They gamed the CBO numbers. CBO was forced to score what the Administration, what Congress gives them," Johnson said of a Congressional Budget Office projection that showed that increased insurance coverage would end up saving the government money. 

But Johnson, who announced his endorsement of Mitt Romney Monday, dismissed those projections, saying they relied on "phantom savings" in programs like Medicare.

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