Mike Erickson: “We have runaway national out of control national debt.”

“Higher labor costs. Those are important to everybody in this district here. So we do everything we can back in Congress and get inflation under control. We have runaway national out of control national debt. Our government feels like they can just keep adding more to that. And we really need to manage our money in Congress and our federal dollars better than we are today.” (04:49–04:53)

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