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Mark Warner: “At $16.5 trillion in debt that goes up $3 billion a day, if we were to have interest rates at anything close to historic…”

On the recordFebruary 12, 2013
At $16.5 trillion in debt that goes up $3 billion a day, if we were to have interest rates at anything close to historic levels already, we would see interest costs alone on that debt outcourse Medicare at this point.
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Mark Warner
Democratic · Virginia

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Warner warns about the unsustainable growth of national debt and its implications.

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