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Roger Wicker: “If the economy improves as you expect it to, the $221 billion we pay each year in interest on the national debt, that…”

On the recordFebruary 3, 2014
If the economy improves as you expect it to, the $221 billion we pay each year in interest on the national debt, that will double.
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Roger Wicker
Republican · Mississippi

Editor's note · Context

Wicker discusses the potential increase in interest payments on national debt.

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