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Markwayne Mullin: “The only time this has happened is when we've come out of a…”

Featuring: Markwayne Mullin, Republican | U.S. Senate, Oklahoma

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U.S. Senator Markwayne Mullin | BRCC #326

Published | Video Starts at 1:07:11

If you look at any economist that is a world economist that looks at any country around the world, when you see those two matrix pass each other, there's a crisis and this, we're in that area right now. The only time this has happened is when we've come out of a war like World War II. right. We brought down our defense spending, but we had ran a tremendous amount of debt that only lasted for about 10 years. And even coming out of Korea, we didn't have that same swing. (1:07:11–1:07:16)

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Asserts that the current debt situation is comparable only to post-World War II.

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