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On the recordApril 23, 2018
But when Obama left, he made significant progress cleaning up after the Bush years. We cut the deficit by over half to $665.4 billion.
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Maria Cantwell
Democratic · Washington

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Highlighting deficit reduction achieved during Obama's presidency.

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