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Ted Cruz: “Roughly half of that, nearly 50% went to foreign banks.”

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Senator Ted Cruz Discusses Democratic Party's Decline, Federal Reserve Policy, and Gambling Tax Reform

Published | Video Starts at 20:37

Of the $168 billion that the Fed paid last year in interest on reserves. Say that number again. You said 168 billion. Billion, golly, Roughly half of that, nearly 50% went to foreign banks. So not even American banks. Foreign banks getting tens of billions of dollars of US Taxpayer money every year. Every year. (20:37–20:43)

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Asserts that nearly 50% of the interest paid by the Federal Reserve went to foreign banks.

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