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David Schweikert: “We're borrowing over 95,000 a second.”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 04:01

It's why if you look at OECD, they actually have the United States now closer to 144% of debt to GDP because they don't allow accounting games like we do internally. We're borrowing over 95,000 a second. If you actually look at the run rate right now, last 365 days, or 366 if you throw in the leap year, we've borrowed over 3 trillion. (04:01–04:05)

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