Now, when you're spending trillions of dollars, or about $1.3 trillion, obviously it's going to fund a lot of good things, but We're approaching $39 trillion in debt. The fact that you had five senators with earmarks totaling over $400 million apiece, the top earmarker, and Santa is, by the way, the ranking member of the Appropriations Committee, getting, I think, $520 million of earmarks, that'll obviously grease the skids. (02:40–02:43)
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Asserts that the U.S. national debt is nearing $39 trillion.
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