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Jasmine Crockett: “Under Trump in his first administration, we went into debt…”

Featuring: Jasmine Crockett, Democratic | U.S. House, Texas, District 30

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Published | Video Starts at 03:08

I don't think that there's a lot. I think. Why are we so in debt then? We're in debt because we decide that we're going to reduce the income, right? So Under Trump in his first administration, we went into debt $8 trillion. Now, he wanted to say it was because of COVID It really wasn't. Obviously there was money that we sent out because people were in need during COVID to make sure that we didn't go into a recession. (03:08–03:13)

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Asserts that the U.S. debt increased by $8 trillion during Trump's first administration.

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