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Nicholas Begich: “We in the last four years have added over $8 trillion to the…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 13:45

Not just now, but if we're going to be honest, over the last three to four years, and what's happened is the government's been running extraordinary deficits. We in the last four years have added over $8 trillion to the national debt. And oftentimes we think that's financed by international buyers of our debt, sometimes China, sometimes others. But in this particular case, that financing happened through the Federal Reserve. (13:45–13:51)

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Asserts that over $8 trillion has been added to the national debt in the last four years.

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