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Josh Brecheen: “We're $36 trillion in debt.”

Featuring: Josh Brecheen, Republican | U.S. House Oklahoma, 2nd Congressional District

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Congressman Josh Brecheen joins Brooks Brewer on Brewer's Briefing

Published | Video Starts at 02:27

And over the course of 10 years, plus some other things that we built in, we believe we could actually get to, on the discretionary side, a trillion dollars in savings over 10 years. We're $36 trillion in debt. So if anybody says what we sent over was extreme, they're not. In reality. We did the best we could given the moderate to liberal ideology that also exists within Republican conference. (02:27–02:30)

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