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Blake Moore: “We run a $2 trillion deficit every year.”

Featuring: Blake Moore, Republican | U.S. House Utah, 1st Congressional District

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Hive Capital: How Public Policy Shapes the Future of Life Sciences | Representative Blake Moore

Published | Video Starts at 33:00

It's a loaded question. There's a lot there. Yeah. And the thing that I immediately go to is, I mean, $2 trillion deficit every year. We run a $2 trillion deficit every year. And then all of a sudden, NIH funding has to get constrained because we can't continue on with a $2 trillion deficit. (33:00–33:04)

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