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Sheldon Whitehouse: “The Bush administration has added nearly $8 trillion to the national debt versus where the budget was planned to go.”

On the recordJanuary 7, 2009
The Bush administration has added nearly $8 trillion to the national debt versus where the budget was planned to go.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island

Editor's note · Context

Whitehouse criticizes the increase in national debt under Bush's administration.

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