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Tim Ryan: “Right. This is not a game. This is not a game that needs to be played. We switch the numbers here, and we switch them…”

On the recordFebruary 8, 2006
Right. This is not a game. This is not a game that needs to be played. We switch the numbers here, and we switch them here. This is important, because as of February 8, which I believe is today, $8,200,380,327,202 is the national debt. And we will have a chart next week that is updating this. And the President is going to come and ask to rise the debt ceiling so that we can go out and borrow more money. But your share of the national debt, Ms. Wasserman Schultz, is $27,518. That is what you owe, the debt you owe to the United States Treasury.
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Tim Ryan
Democratic · Ohio

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