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Nicholas Begich: “Our deficit is out of control because the role of government…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 06:26

Right now, we are spending a trillion dollars every hundred days in money we don't have that gets added to the national debt permanently. Right. Our deficit is out of control. And the reason Our deficit is out of control because the role of government has become unconstrained. Our constitution lays out a constraint, a series of constraints, for what the federal government is supposed to do and the things that it cannot do, things that are left to the states, rights that are reserved for the people. (06:26–06:31)

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Asserts that the U.S. deficit is out of control due to an unconstrained government role.

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