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Cliff Bentz: “We're going 2 trillion a year in the hole.”

Featuring: Cliff Bentz, Republican | U.S. House Oregon, 2nd Congressional District

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Published | Video Starts at 37:15

My reason is quite simple. My reason is that there's a heck of a lot more important things we've got to be spending the money on and We're going 2 trillion a year in the hole. So the proper argument is not your bias or its bias. The proper argument is we're going broke. And so, yeah, I like listening to Jar. (37:15–37:19)

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Asserts that the U.S. is incurring a $2 trillion annual deficit.

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