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David Schweikert: “We're clicking off a trillion dollars about every 125 days.”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 29:24

And if you do it over a decade, understand the baseline looks like at the end of the decade, we're going to be well over $48 trillion. But that makes sense if We're clicking off a trillion dollars about every 125 days. You really think the credit markets are going to keep loaning us money at favorable interest rates when we're staring down $50 trillion at the end of this decade? (29:24–29:29)

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Asserts that the U.S. is accumulating $1 trillion in debt approximately every 125 days.

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