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Mike Johnson: “The national debt is the number one national security…”

Featuring: Mike Johnson, Republican | Speaker of the United States House of Representatives | National

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Published | Video Starts at 05:14

I mean, they're good friends. We have lots of discussion about this. We are all deficit and debt hawks. We're concerned about the fiscal trajectory of the country. The national debt is the number one national security threat. We have to address it. But here's what I think Ron is missing in this, all of this is he'd like to cut, you know, $8 trillion overnight, some huge figure like that. (05:14–05:18)

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Asserts that the national debt is the top national security threat.

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