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On the recordDecember 11, 2013
In the next 8 years, we saw the surplus we were running reversed and the structural deficit exceeding $1 trillion a year in the next 8 years.
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Bill Foster
Democratic · Illinois

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Foster discusses the reversal of budget surpluses into large deficits.

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