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Jeff Sessions: “We will pay $875 billion in interest in 1 year. That is a $650 billion increase in the amount we are paying for interest…”

On the recordMay 5, 2014
We will pay $875 billion in interest in 1 year. That is a $650 billion increase in the amount we are paying for interest over this period of time.
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Jeff Sessions
Republican · Alabama

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Sessions warns about the rising costs of national debt and its impact on budgets.

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