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Tom Carper: “We have seen the deficit come down from about $1.4 trillion in 2009; last year it was only $680 billion.”

On the recordApril 7, 2014
We have seen the deficit come down from about $1.4 trillion in 2009; last year it was only $680 billion.
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Tom Carper
Democratic · Delaware

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Carper highlights the reduction in the federal deficit over recent years.

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