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Steve Bannon: “That budget also had a $2 trillion deficit and baked into it…”

Featuring: Steve Bannon, Former White House Chief Strategist | National

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Published | Video Starts at 38:23

Because for your audience, this is a crazy thing, because the way we finance things here, we actually had to approve a budget that is actually Trump's first year. It's Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi's budget. This is what we've approved. That budget also had a $2 trillion deficit and baked into it that we agreed to. And all of the fraud that Elon Musk had found up to three weeks ago is actually none of it, got taken out because there's an up or down vote. (38:23–38:28)

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