Speaking of economy, let's talk about the national debt, which is nearly 35 trillion right now. Where does deficit reduction fit into your policy priorities? Yeah, absolutely. To point, We were on track to reduce the deficit, actually, and then we got the Trump and the Bush tax cuts. and a lot of those were actually at the cost of the middle class. So we need to alleviate the burden of taxes on the middle class and go ahead and tax the wealthiest, like, 0.1% their fair share. (04:22–04:30)
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