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Rick Scott: “You don't run, you know, $2 trillion a year deficits.”

Featuring: Rick Scott, Republican | U.S. Senate, Florida

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Sen. Scott Says Democrats Won't Support Anything Trump Wants to Do

Published | Video Starts at 06:37

I grew up in public housing, got to build companies. So my. And the way you do that is you give people opportunity. You don't have a government make all the rules. You don't run, you know, $2 trillion a year deficits. You get rid of inflation, you give opportunity to people and they'll go thrive under that. (06:37–06:41)

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Asserts that the government should not run $2 trillion annual deficits.

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