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Pete Buttigieg: “Interest rates are pushed up by the enormous deficits…”

Featuring: Pete Buttigieg, Democratic | Former Secretary of Transportation, Former Mayor of South Bend | National

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Pete Responds To Trump's Speech, Live on CNN

Published | Video Starts at 05:12

And, you know, one of the things that's making it hard to afford a mortgage right now is interest rates. Interest rates are pushed up by the enormous deficits created by the Trump tax cuts for the wealthiest and the corporations. So in every case, he's offering a little droplet of something. Some things I might even agree with. But that little droplet goes into a bucket of things he has done to actively make the problem worse. (05:12–05:20)

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Asserts that Trump's tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations have increased deficits, pushing up interest rates.

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