And most people don't worry about that because they say, well, who's going to pay that off? I'll never pay it off, but I hope people recognize they're paying the interest on the debt right now. Last year we spent $300 billion on interest, the national debt, and that's going up to 700 billion. We're adding a trillion a year to the deficit and to the debt. And this is, this is under Republican leadership. It is inexcusable. We're spending $4 trillion a year as a government. (38:30–38:38)
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States the cost of interest on the national debt and its projected increase.
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