--- title: CPAC 2015: Scott Walker Tackles the U.S. Economy description: Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker shared his views on the U.S. economy, the minimum wage, and and the dispute over Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's impending... canonical: https://time.com/3727426/real-time-scott-walker-tackles-the-u-s-economy-at-cpac/ author: Julia Lull article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-02-28T21:42:10.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T04:48:48.979Z article:section: Politics og:title: Real TIME: Scott Walker Tackles the U.S. Economy at CPAC og:description: Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker shared his views on the U.S. economy, the minimum wage, and and the dispute over Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's impending... og:url: https://time.com/3727426/real-time-scott-walker-tackles-the-u-s-economy-at-cpac/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt80435636078a5d59/6987818e8e0601737245a8df/walker-wp.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: walker-wp.jpg og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Real TIME: Scott Walker Tackles the U.S. Economy at CPAC twitter:description: Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker shared his views on the U.S. economy, the minimum wage, and and the dispute over Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's impending... twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt80435636078a5d59/6987818e8e0601737245a8df/walker-wp.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Real TIME: Scott Walker Tackles the U.S. Economy at CPAC  by [Julia Lull](https://time.com/author/julia-lull/)  ## Julia Lull Feb 28, 2015 9:42 PM UTC   by [Julia Lull](https://time.com/author/julia-lull/)  ## Julia Lull Feb 28, 2015 9:42 PM UTC Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker shared his views on the U.S. economy, the minimum wage, and and the dispute over Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s impending speech to Congress during his speech at CPAC. Watch #RealTIME to see what he had to say. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3727426/real-time-scott-walker-tackles-the-u-s-economy-at-cpac/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3727426/real-time-scott-walker-tackles-the-u-s-economy-at-cpac/"},"headline":"Real TIME: Scott Walker Tackles the U.S. Economy at CPAC","datePublished":"2015-02-28T21:42:10.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T04:48:48.979Z","description":"Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker shared his views on the U.S. economy, the minimum wage, and and the dispute over Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's impending...","url":"https://time.com/3727426/real-time-scott-walker-tackles-the-u-s-economy-at-cpac/","keywords":["republicans","Benjamin Netanyahu","Scott Walker"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt80435636078a5d59/6987818e8e0601737245a8df/walker-wp.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Julia Lull","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/julia-lull/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt80435636078a5d59/6987818e8e0601737245a8df/walker-wp.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"walker-wp.jpg","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/republicans/","name":"republicans"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3727426/real-time-scott-walker-tackles-the-u-s-economy-at-cpac/","name":"Real TIME: Scott Walker Tackles the U.S. Economy at CPAC"}}]}] ```