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Steve Bannon: “We're running $2 trillion deficits because of what's…”

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

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Trump's Power & the Rule of Law: Steve Bannon (interview) | FRONTLINE

Published | Video Starts at 34:23

You know, I've been a big advocate that we have to have political courage of the political class, and we have to address the actual structure of the spending of this country and why We're running $2 trillion deficits because of what's happened in Covid and the kind of spending that went on Covid we haven't gotten rid of. Your audience should understand. We spent six and a half or seven trillion dollars a year. We raised in taxes four and a half trillion. There's a gap. (34:23–34:30)

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Asserts that $2 trillion deficits are due to Covid-related spending that hasn't been reduced.

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