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Ted Cruz: “Ending [the Federal Reserve's practice of paying interest on…”

Featuring: Ted Cruz, Republican | U.S. Senate, Texas

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Ted Cruz Discusses Senate Amendments to Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' and Medicaid Concerns

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That is your and my taxpayer money that is going straight to big banks. And roughly 40 to 50% of those banks are foreign banks. And so Ending [the Federal Reserve's practice of paying interest on bank reserves] would save $1.1 trillion over the next 10 years. So that's an example of the kind of cutting we can do. And I don't think we should be sending our taxpayer dollars to giant banks. (01:30–01:37)

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Asserts that ending the Federal Reserve's practice of paying interest on bank reserves would save $1.1 trillion over a decade.

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