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Russell Vought: “We're $37 trillion in debt market.”

Featuring: Russell Vought, Director, U.S. Office of Management and Budget | National

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Full Interview: OMB Director Russell Vought on "Face the Nation"

Published | Video Starts at 09:58

That's the challenge is the appropriators want to use all the rescissions. They want to put them in their bills and then they want to spend higher on other programs. We're $37 trillion in debt market. We actually need to reduce the deficit and have a dollar of cut, go to a dollar of deficit reduction. That's not what the appropriators want. (09:58–10:01)

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