It's important that we do. But we do have this specter of how Congress has managed the nation's finances for many, many years. If we were here 15 years ago when Our debt was 16 trillion [15 years ago]. a lot of us were alarmed then. If I had told you that, we'd be at 38 trillion 15 years later, you'd be like, there's no way. (01:19–01:22)
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