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Howard Lutnick: “We have a $36 trillion deficit.”

Featuring: Howard Lutnick, Secretary of Commerce | National

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You're destroying the people who have run this country before, are destroying the future for my children and my children's children. I can't have a 50 75. We have a $36 trillion deficit. And we used to run deficits of 400 billion, now 2 trillion. Everybody's like, who cares? I tell you what, who cares? Donald Trump cares. (20:00–20:04)

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