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Ron DeSantis: “We'd be at 38 trillion [in debt] 15 years later.”

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Governor DeSantis Encourages Idaho Legislature to Support Balanced Budget Amendment

Published | Video Starts at 01:24

If we were here 15 years ago when our debt was 16 trillion, a lot of us were alarmed then. If I had told you that, We'd be at 38 trillion [in debt] 15 years later. you'd be like, there's no way. If you said, hey, it's going to be $2 trillion annually added to the debt with kind of no end in sight, you would have said, there's no way. (01:24–01:28)

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Asserts that the U.S. national debt is now 38 trillion dollars.

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