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Wesley Hunt: “We are running a $2 trillion annual deficit.”

Featuring: Wesley Hunt, Republican | U.S. House, Texas, District 38

'We're Not Going To Touch Your Medicaid' Wesley Hunt Defends GOP Budget, Details Internal Process

Published February 26, 2025 | Video Starts at 19:34

And what Elon is doing is trying to find a way to go line by line and streamline the bureaucratic bloat that has driven us to $36 trillion in debt. And We are running a $2 trillion annual deficit. And do you know why? Because we continue to pass continuing resolution after continuing resolution to omnibus bill after omnibus bill, and it's our job to have the power of the purse here in the halls of Congress. (19:34–19:38)

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