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Vivek Ramaswamy: “We're paying more on interest payments on our national debt…”

Featuring: Vivek Ramaswamy, Libertarian, Conservative | Former Candidate, President of the United States | National

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Published | Video Starts at 16:39

There's two things that fall on their shoulders. And. And if we don't get this right, we don't have certainly the America we know left. Number one is the national debt crisis. We're paying more on interest payments on our national debt than we are on our entire U.S. military budget. That is unsustainable for the long run. And we're going to have to do something in the long run to address this culture of dependence on the entitlement state that has festered in our country for 60 years. (16:39–16:45)

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