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Steve Scalise: “There's been estimates that the cost of all this free stuff…”

Featuring: Steve Scalise, Republican | House Majority Leader, U.S. House Louisiana, District 1

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Published | Video Starts at 13:53

And by the way, there's a cost to all of this madness that the left and the Democrat Party now has embraced because it's been taken over. I called it the Bolshevik Revolution. It's real, but there's a cost. There's been estimates that the cost of all this free stuff will be over $200 trillion. trillion with a T. And everybody knows that. You go look at any socialist country, you know, Margaret Thatcher said it best problem with socialism is eventually you run out of other people's money. (13:53–14:00)

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