Just for context, the United States spent $6.5 trillion in three wars in the Middle East. None of it was paid for and there was no economic growth that came to the American economy because of that so-called investment.
Higgins contrasts military spending with the need for investment in domestic renewal.
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We paid $400 billion down on the national debt. That kind of growth was only made possible by the investment that this Congress made in the American people and the growth of the American economy.
You can't continue to hold the American people hostage because of a debt situation that you helped create.
Congress' inability to make a budget fully with approved appropriations bills virtually every single year... hurts the world economy as well.
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