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David Schweikert: “We're borrowing over 9.6 [percent of GDP] right now.”

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

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Schweikert: It's Time for Members of Congress To Start Acting Like Adults

Published | Video Starts at 18:17

Maximize it to the revenue producing maximum. And then do the economic adjustment. You get one and a half percent of GDP. That's the studies. One and a half percent of GDP. We're borrowing over 9.6 [percent of GDP] right now. If someone out there is brilliant and you have an easier way to explain this, please send it to me because I feel like I'm just treading water here where … (18:17)

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