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David Schweikert: “There's a trillion and a half dollars sitting in accounts up…”

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

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David Schweikert's Congressional Address on U.S. Debt, Healthcare, and Economic Policy Challenges

Published | Video Starts at 37:15

This is more using data to find where the hell's all the cash. Turns out if you add up all which, there's no way the Appropriations Committee or the White House, There's a trillion and a half dollars sitting in accounts up and down government that was appropriated three years ago, but they never built it. There's a great example of hundreds of millions of dollars that were set aside for one state. It's in the account to build a bridge. They chose not to build that bridge. (37:15–37:24)

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Asserts that $1.5 trillion in government funds appropriated three years ago remains unspent.

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