By their deeds, you will know them. Finally, Madam Chair, when we were here last May, we had a bill that the CBO, The CBO said [the bill] would blow up the deficit by $2.4 trillion. And when you add interest cost to that, you get $3 trillion. I know we have a lot of people among our Republican colleagues that don't like debt, but for some reason they like this debt. (08:56–09:02)
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Asserts that the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projected the bill would increase the deficit by $2.4 trillion.
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