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Ed Case: “We had collected $1.2 trillion in revenue thus far in those…”

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 15:35

So forget the mandatory for a second. Let's. This is as of December 2025. So we're in fiscal year 2026. And I'm just going to kind of, you know, summarize this. We had collected $1.2 trillion in revenue thus far in those three months, and we had spent 1.8 trillion. So we are spending in the deficit. We have been for a long, long time. It's not a surprise. (15:35–15:45)

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Asserts that in the first three months of fiscal year 2026, the U.S. collected $1.2 trillion and spent $1.8 trillion.

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