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John Hickenlooper: “He's going to balloon our deficit to $4 trillion.”

Featuring: John Hickenlooper, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Colorado

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Virtual Town Hall with Senator Hickenlooper and Janine Davidson on National Issues

Published | Video Starts at 26:33

But there's no reason to put out such enormous tax cuts for the ultra wealthy. And he's going to have to cut $880 billion from the budget. That means Coming after Medicaid, He's going to balloon our deficit to $4 trillion. That doesn't sound like it's efficiency to me, but it doesn't seem to bother anyone over there. I mean, again and again, I can say this. (26:33–26:37)

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Asserts that the budget will increase the deficit by $4 trillion.

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