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David Schweikert: “$800 billion of Medicare is borrowed.”

Featuring: David Schweikert, Republican | U.S. House, Arizona, District 1

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Schweikert: It's Time for Members of Congress To Start Acting Like Adults

Published | Video Starts at 08:30

How do we as members of Congress go home and explain every dime you as a member of Congress vote on is borrowed? Every dime we vote on. And if you use my projections on the borrowing for this year, $800 billion of Medicare is borrowed. and the economy is actually okay. How can we be at the current gdp? And I didn't check GDP now on the Atlanta Fed before I walked in here, but … (08:30–08:34)

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Asserts that $800 billion of Medicare funding is financed through borrowing.

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