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Gavin Newsom: “We're spending more on interest than we are national…”

Featuring: Gavin Newsom, Democratic | Governor of California

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Published | Video Starts at 29:16

Come on, you talk about debt, look in the mirror. CBO is at 3.4 trillion. 10 years or 4.7, depends on which CBO report I read. I mean, it's madness. It's madness. We're spending more on interest than we are national defense. So this is not sustainable. Entitlement issues. And again, you talk about displacement, white collar workers, and then start to look the entitlement question. So debt and entitlement energy, climate change. (29:16–29:20)

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Asserts that the U.S. spends more on interest payments than on national defense.

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