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Jim Jordan: “Exactly. We are approaching $11 trillion of national debt. The deficit we will run up in this fiscal year and last…”

On the recordJanuary 14, 2009
Exactly. We are approaching $11 trillion of national debt. The deficit we will run up in this fiscal year and last fiscal year, the last 2 years, $2 trillion we are going to add to the national debt. That is equal to what it took us from 1789 to 1987 to accumulate. So in 2 years we have accumulated as much, added to the national debt what it took us 200 years to get to.
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Jim Jordan
Republican · Ohio

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Discussing the national debt and deficit during a speech.

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