Gwen Moore: “When you add interest cost to that, you get $3 trillion.”

“Finally, Madam Chair, when we were here last May, we had a bill that the CBO, the CBO said 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.” (09:02–09:06)

This is an excerpt from a raw transcript. The assertions have not been audited or verified. Tap the video to view the source footage and understand the context.