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Bill Clinton: “All we have to do is take the savings that we get from paying down the debt with the Social Security surplus and put…”

On the recordDecember 10, 1999
All we have to do is take the savings that we get from paying down the debt with the Social Security surplus and put those interest savings into the Trust Fund.
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

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Remarks at a Reception for Representative Alcee L. Hastings in Fort Lauderdale

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