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Eric Hovde: “We've added more debt in the last three and a half years…”

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

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Eric Hovde on Mornings with Maria - March 15, 2024

Published | Video Starts at 03:54

All she does is throw a personal attack on me because she has no record to run on. She's been a career politician for 37 years, 25 years in Washington. Look what's happened to our debt in that timeframe. We've added more debt in the last three and a half years than we did in our country's first 230 years. Interest costs on our. I know. Our interest costs on our debt is now the second largest expenditure to our federal government. I mean, that's stunning. It's bigger than our Defense Department. (03:54–04:00)

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