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David Schweikert: “Every dime of defense is in the 800 billion dollar range.”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 19:34

Because that's the only way you start to cover these scales of shortfall the first year. So 2033, first year Social Security is empty. The shortfall is 616 billion dollars. Every dime of defense is in the 800 billion dollar range. Do you understand the scale of what's coming at us? And look, I've already done these charts before over and over and over saying hey, here we are. (19:34–19:41)

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Asserts that the U.S. defense budget is approximately 800 billion dollars.

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