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Ron DeSantis: “Interest on the debt's already a trillion plus a year.”

Featuring: Ron DeSantis, Republican | Governor of Florida

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Governor DeSantis Speaks at Palm Beach Atlantic University

Published | Video Starts at 18:36

Just you go kind of do what you do. And that's true until it's not. If you do have a crisis and you know the interest rates spike, Interest on the debt's already a trillion plus a year. That balloons even more. I mean almost you could have where the lion's share of tax revenue just going to pay a the interest on the debt we've already accumulated. (18:36–18:40)

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Asserts that the interest on the U.S. national debt exceeds a trillion dollars annually.

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