And for many of the folks here, you get your five minutes of theater and then we add hundreds of billions of dollars of additional interest. I'm going to show you charts here where We are approaching $1.2 trillion of interest this year. I'm going to try to walk through a concept that the spending, particularly what the Democrats did with the Inflation Reduction act, where we're basically saying over the 10 years we're going to be pumping out a couple trillion dollars of subsidies to corporate America. (02:16–02:20)
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Asserts that the U.S. is nearing $1.2 trillion in interest payments for the year.
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