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Jeff Sessions: “We paid $211 billion in interest on our debt this past year, and it will rise to $880 billion 10 years from today.”

On the recordFebruary 26, 2014
We paid $211 billion in interest on our debt this past year, and it will rise to $880 billion 10 years from today.
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Jeff Sessions
Republican · Alabama

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Sessions discusses rising debt interest payments and their implications.

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