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David Schweikert: “In eight years, nine years, when the Social Security trust…”

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

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Schweikert: Congress Has Handed Control of Nation Over to the Bond Market

Published | Video Starts at 17:22

The scale, it's not today. It's as you move over the next couple years. The scale of borrowing is structural. It is what we are demographically and heaven forbid, In eight years, nine years, when the Social Security trust fund is exhausted. And to my Democrats who get cranky when you, you can't use the word exhausted. That's what the Social Security Actuary report, if you would actually read the math, actually says. (17:22–17:28)

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Asserts that the Social Security trust fund will be exhausted in eight to nine years.

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