Sen. David Perdue: D.C. unfazed by $20-plus trillion national debt

‘Wake up, Washington!,’ says U.S. senator

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Republican U.S. Sen. David Perdue said Congress needs to take control of the climbing national debt the total bill just climbed passed $20 trillion.

The Georgian legislator blamed the Government Accountability Office for some of the $700 million he says the county wasted with bureaucratic errors, but he offered a few remedies to the predicament:

“The way to fix it is in our grasp. No. 1, we need to fix Washington’s broken budget process,” Perdue said, according a Washington Free Beacon report. “Two: We need to root out all the wasteful spending in the federal government today. Three: We’ve got to grow the economy by peeling and pulling back on a lot of regulations that are unnecessary and by revamping our tax structure and by unleashing our energy potential. No. 4: We need to save Social Security and Medicare and, lastly, we finally have to get after the real drivers of spiraling health care costs.”

He added that tax reform could help mend the problem. “Along with reducing our spending by almost 20 percent each year, we need to grow the economy to solve this debt crisis,” he said. “The single most important thing that we can do to grow the economy next year is to change this tax code.”



 






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