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Eric Hovde: “We're consistently running well over a trillion dollars in…”

Featuring: Eric Hovde, Republican | Former Candidate, U.S. Senate Wisconsin

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Published | Video Starts at 00:43

But Joe Biden and his Democratic allies take the cake for the damage that they have done. We basically have racked up $7 trillion more in debt in just the last three and a half years. We're consistently running well over a trillion dollars in deficit spending every year. Our debt to our GDP is now over 120%. So what do these numbers all mean? It means that government spending is going to start crowding everything out. (00:43–00:50)

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Asserts that the U.S. has an annual deficit spending exceeding one trillion dollars.

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