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Donald Trump: “We go from having a 37, 36, $37 trillion [debt]... to low…”

Featuring: Donald Trump, Republican | President of the United States | National

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Published | Video Starts at 04:46

Is not the biggest expenditure on your budget. How to get out of that impulse? Well, the big thing is growth. I mean, growth is the way. If we grow like this, We go from having a 37, 36, $37 trillion [debt]... to low debt. But we also are cutting expenses, you know, the old fashioned way. We have extraordinary growth. I think we're going to be growing our way out. (04:46–04:55)

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Asserts that U.S. debt is currently between $36 and $37 trillion.

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