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NRSC Statement On Tammy Baldwin’s Latest Fiscal Legacy – A $15 Trillion Debt

Republicans Release New Video Highlighting Baldwin’s Reckless Spending Agenda WASHINGTON — When liberal Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin first came to Washington in January 1999, the federal debt stood at $5.6 trillion – a figure which took over 200 years for our country to reach.  Yet, today, and particularly over the last three years as Baldwin has rubber-stamped every major spending initiative proposed by President Obama, the federal debt has now grown to the once-unfathomable mark of $15 trillion – a 168 percent increase and more than $48,000 for every American man, woman and child. To mark the United States Treasury reaching the $15 trillion debt mark today, and to highlight the massive spending by Congresswoman Baldwin and President Obama that has led to this point, the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) released a new web video – “$15,000,000,000,000…Siriously” “Each and every Wisconsin family and business has to make tough choices and…