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Biden, McCarthy Fail to Reach Debt Ceiling Deal as Default Risks Grow 5/22/23

CNBC's "Last Call"

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The Debt Ceiling and the American People

The American people want us to raise the debt ceiling, but they also don't want to give the Democrats. I like the idea of the health care savings because it's about 50% of the spending in the federal government between Medicare and Medicaid. We have two wars that were put on the credit card. The prescription drug bill was put on theCreditCard. And then what happened here with COVID? There's a lot of blood on a lot of people's hands there when it comes to the federal budget.

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