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Ted Cruz: “I ended up saving over $40 billion, reducing the deficit and…”

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

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Ted Cruz Discusses Trump's Second Term Achievements and Legislative Victories

Published | Video Starts at 36:02

And listen, you and I are deeply concerned about the deficit and the debt. The entire Commerce title that I wrote that had historic investments in Coast Guard and a bunch of other things. I ended up saving over $40 billion, reducing the deficit and the debt by over $40 billion. And the driver was because of Spectrum auction authority, we brought in, we will bring in $100 billion to pay down the debt. That's real money. (36:02–36:09)

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