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Lloyd Doggett: “We begin to understand why Trump calls himself ``the king of debt,'' because there is plenty of debt that will be added…”

On the recordOctober 4, 2017
We begin to understand why Trump calls himself ``the king of debt,'' because there is plenty of debt that will be added onto this plan. For Trump and his cohorts, fiscal responsibility is just a political slogan that they use to undermine those education and social service programs they were never for in the first place. The Republican budget is not just numbers. It has a real human cost. By slashing investments in our economic future, it is a recipe for weakness, not strength. I urge my colleagues to side with the middle class, with working folks all over America, and reject this budget.
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Lloyd Doggett
Democratic · Texas
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Oct 4, 2017

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