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Ken Paxton: “It's like, what, 39 trillion? No, I mean, it's either 30 or…”

Featuring: Ken Paxton, Republican | Attorney General of Texas

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Published | Video Starts at 26:29

The budget deficit has been from the time of George Washington until John Cornyn got there in 2002 with $6.2 trillion. Anybody know what it is today? Anybody can keep track of it. It's like, what, 39 trillion? No, I mean, it's either 30 or 30. I can't even keep track of it so fast. He's overseen all of it. He's never done anything to stop it. (26:29–26:34)

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Asserts that the current U.S. budget deficit is around $30 trillion.

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