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David Schweikert: “National debt increase in the first seven months of this…”

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

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The mandatory programs in the bond market does. So the other thing, it also should just really annoy anyone who actually pays attention to the actual math instead of the theatrics. National debt increase in the first seven months of this fiscal year [2024] is $1,450,000,000,000. We were in 2023. At this point, we had borrowed about a half a trillion dollars. Yay. Good job. Now we're at 1,450,000,000,000 the same time period this year. (15:00–15:05)

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