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David Schweikert: “GDP now from the Atlanta Fed and others had their math…”

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

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'This Is Immoral': David Schweikert Issues Dire Economic Warning To House Colleagues

Published | Video Starts at 01:10

And you know, we see tax receipts up 7 plus percent and yet we're still burning through cash at an incredible rate and having to borrow and borrow. Well, it turns out last Friday we got the punchline, we were wrong. GDP now from the Atlanta Fed and others had their math wrong. We got an update... it looks like we're about 1.6%. all thinking that gdp Atlanta Fed had been estimating the first quarter of this calendar year, not fiscal year, calendar year, sitting at about 2.7%. They came in and said no, we're wrong. (01:10–01:32)

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Asserts that the Atlanta Fed revised the GDP growth estimate for the first quarter to 1.6%.

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