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David Schweikert: “The burn rate right now is we're borrowing a trillion about…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 05:35

Or is it just so the idiot class, you know, in Washington basically quotes the old number. But does anyone understand when you see movements of numbers that are functionally a trillion, The burn rate right now is we're borrowing a trillion about every 125 days. Does that get anyone's attention? So we're going to walk through a number of these slides and then when we get down to the end here, forgive me for moving … (05:35–05:42)

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Asserts that the U.S. is borrowing $1 trillion approximately every 125 days.

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