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Ed Case: “This was somewhere around 28 trillion only about four, six…”

Featuring: Ed Case, Democratic | U.S. House Hawaii, 1st Congressional District

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@RepEdCase annual Federal Funds Workshop 2-18-26 at Hawai'i State Capitol

Published | Video Starts at 17:52

That's $10 trillion of debt. And that's what this is right here. We now have national debt. What our government owes to people that have loaned US money of 38 trillion dollars. This was somewhere around 28 trillion only about four, six years ago. A lot of that was Covid, but a lot of that was because we barred our way out of COVID We had billions of dollars in Covid borrowings, four or five trillion dollars in a very short period of time. (17:52–17:59)

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Asserts that the U.S. national debt was approximately $28 trillion four to six years ago.

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