Vivek Ramaswamy: “We're in the middle of a national debt crisis.”

“It's an issue that goes back as old as the mid 20th century, if not before, when our federal government was overspending its money anyway. We're in the middle of a national debt crisis. We need to cut down how much our federal government is spending. We need to return as much of that to the states and to the people anyway.” (01:29–01:32)

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