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David Schweikert: “In nine budget years you're going to have 60, 62 trillion…”

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 19:05

I didn't watch though. And you start to understand that when you do the comparisons of where we're heading, this is one. When you start to see numbers saying In nine budget years you're going to have 60, 62 trillion dollars of borrowing. That's what we're trying to compare. And we're slicing the difference between our projection and the CBO baseline. (19:05–19:14)

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Asserts that in nine budget years, US borrowing will reach 60 to 62 trillion dollars.

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