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Chip Roy: The question I have for the gentleman: When I graduated from law school at the University of Texas in 2003, the national…

On the recordMay 1, 2025
The question I have for the gentleman: When I graduated from law school at the University of Texas in 2003, the national debt was somewhere in the $6 trillion range, $6.5 trillion dollars. When I came to Congress, when I was campaigning to come to Congress, it was just over $20 trillion. That was 2018. Today, we are pushing $37 trillion. Is that roughly correct? {time} 1300
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Chip Roy
Republican · Texas
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May 1, 2025

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