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Dusty Johnson: “We're $37 trillion in debt.”

Featuring: Dusty Johnson, Republican | U.S. House, South Dakota's At-Large Congressional District

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Published | Video Starts at 14:02

Things like roads and bridges. Not just those, but those. And then, number three, we need to take care of our most vulnerable populations. We're $37 trillion in debt. And so although I know that they're not easy conversations to have funding, as long as we're continuing to run a $2 trillion annual deficit, funding things outside of those … (14:02–14:06)

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Asserts that the national debt is $37 trillion.

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