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Tim Sheehy: “We add 4 1/2 billion a day to the national debt.”

Featuring: Tim Sheehy, Republican | U.S. Senate from Montana

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Dollars, Defense, and Reform: A Conversation with Senator Tim Sheehy

Published | Video Starts at 28:29

The rescissions package went in to remove we're going to move I mean it was going to be hundreds of billions of dollars. It ended up being 9 billion and we could barely even pass 9 billion which is functionally nothing. We add 4 1/2 billion a day to the national debt. and even with Republican apparently the party fiscal sanity Republicans couldn't even get our way to a nine billion dollar resistance back is equivalent of two days of national debts. (28:29–28:34)

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Asserts that the national debt increases by 4.5 billion dollars daily.

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