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On the recordJuly 25, 2018
This comes, by the way, on the heels, in this session of Congress, of the passage of a major tax cut last year that will add over $2 trillion to our national debt over the next 10 years because, again, there was no attempt to pay for it. It comes on the heels of the passage of a 2-year budget that will increase spending by over half a trillion dollars, none of it paid for, none of it offset. Just yesterday, President Trump just announced a $12 billion subsidy bailout program for our family farmers because of the adverse effects that they are feeling due to his tariffs. And that is going to be borrowed money from China, again, to pay our farmers because they can't now sell their product--guess where--into the Chinese market. How crazy is this? I hope we are not in an era now where budget deficits and debt only matters when there is a Democrat in the White House. Over the last year and a half, that certainly seems to be the case in this Congress.
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Ron Kind
Wisconsin

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