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John Cornyn: “Our debt [has] driven to $37 trillion.”

Featuring: John Cornyn, Republican | U.S. Senate, Texas

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Interview with Texas Senator John Cornyn on Border Security and US-Ukraine Economic Partnership

Published | Video Starts at 00:38

But this is our one chance to get not a, on the extension of the expiring tax provisions, but to cut some of the mandatory spending programs that have driven Our debt [has] driven to $37 trillion. and to to do other things like the president's priorities that he campaigned on. So it's going to be complicated. (00:38–00:47)

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Asserts that the national debt has reached $37 trillion.

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