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Alex Padilla: “This bill adds trillions, yes, trillions of dollars to our…”

Featuring: Alex Padilla, Democratic | U.S. Senate from California

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Senator Alex Padilla's Opposition to Republican Reconciliation Bill

Published | Video Starts at 15:28

And I've heard some of the arguments that they plan to make to justify voting for this bill. Some of them will argue that we need this bill because we need to reduce the deficit. Talk about misleading. This bill adds trillions, yes, trillions of dollars to our nation's debt. So even when they try to twist the numbers and come up with the funny math, it doesn't even result in deficit reduction. And you know how you can tell? (15:28–15:36)

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Asserts that the bill will significantly increase the national debt by trillions of dollars.

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