As you know, with a coronavirus epidemic and you know, the way that things were shut down and the impacts on the economy and the fiscal assistance and all those things that was Coronavirus epidemic...was the cause for the increase in the debt. death. Senator, I don't mean to interrupt you, but Senator, the coronavirus hit the Biden administration. I mean it was the Biden administration that took the fiscal hit on the coronavirus. (05:48–06:02)
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