That I came out from behind my desk and wanted to join the government to right the ship and get our fiscal house in order. We were left with a mess. It was the largest deficit when we weren't in a recession, weren't at war. and we are fixing the deficit and there could be a discussion, but this isn't the way to have a discussion shutting down the government and lowering the GDP. (06:57–07:04)
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Asserts that the current deficit is the largest outside of recession or war.
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