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John Cornyn: “Our national debt is actually not a revenue problem... It's…”

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

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Cornyn on President Trump's SOTU Address, OMB's Efforts to Rein In Spending

Published | Video Starts at 07:56

But it's a start and we need to do more, and I trust that we will. We have to. As many of many people know, Our national debt is actually not a revenue problem... It's a spending problem. not how much we don't, it's not that we don't collect enough taxes, as our friends on the Democratic side seem to think. They don't think there's any tax that shouldn't be raised. (07:56–08:13)

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Asserts that the national debt issue is due to spending, not revenue.

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