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Bernie Moreno: “Our total debt was a low, low number of only $15 trillion…”

Featuring: Bernie Moreno, Republican | U.S. Senate, Ohio

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Senators Bernie Moreno and Rubén Gallego on US-Colombia ties

Published | Video Starts at 36:04

And I want you to understand that, that, that's the feeling of America today. That's different than the feeling it was in the mid-90s when we had a surplus, when Our total debt was a low, low number of only $15 trillion. And now it's 37 trillion. And there's a feeling like our industry got hurt, that these factories that once employed this person at that coffee shop in Chillicothe, that that factory now exists in a foreign country not because they didn' job, but because they were chasing lower cost labor. (36:04–36:14)

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Asserts that the U.S. national debt has increased from $15 trillion to $37 trillion.

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