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Nicholas Begich: “It's about $10,000 in spending per US household.”

Featuring: Nicholas Begich, Republican | U.S. House Alaska At-large District

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Published | Video Starts at 19:43

These are really big numbers to wrap your head around. And so to really understand what one point two, one point three trillion dollars is, you got to sort of break it down. And that's, It's about $10,000 in spending per US household. Now, I've asked a lot of people in the last couple of weeks, would you write a check for $10,000 for what's in that bill yourself? (19:43–19:48)

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Asserts that the infrastructure bill equates to about $10,000 in spending per US household.

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