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John Cornyn: “The national debt [is] at $36.2 trillion and counting.”

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

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Published March 12, 2025 | Video Starts at 00:43

And like with any addiction, getting clean and solving that problem is not necessarily easy or comfortable, but it is long overdue and absolutely necessary. With The national debt [is] at $36.2 trillion and counting. we have to start somewhere, and little things add up. And what better place to start than the waste, fraud and abuse that Doge is identifying? This has long been a bipartisan issue. (00:43–00:50)

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Asserts the current national debt is $36.2 trillion.

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