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John Rice Carter: “Well, mandatory spending right now is driving us over the cliff. If we don't do something about our current mandatory…”

On the recordMarch 30, 2022
Well, mandatory spending right now is driving us over the cliff. If we don't do something about our current mandatory spending, the projection is sometime in the early 30s we are going to go over the financial cliff.
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John Rice Carter
Republican · Georgia

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Carter warns about the dangers of increasing mandatory spending.

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