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. Now, we benefited from that here in Hawaii, but we drove up our national debt. And this is an indication of what I said about interest. (18:03–18:09)
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Asserts that the U.S. borrowed four to five trillion dollars during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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