Sen. Jon Husted (R-OH) suggested that promoting economic growth, which he said the “big, beautiful bill” is trying to do, is another way to stave off the national debt.

Husted was among the Republican senators who voted to advance President Donald Trump’s tax legislation Saturday night. Husted celebrated that the bill would avoid a $4 trillion tax increase for American taxpayers. While on Fox News’s Fox & Friends on Sunday, Husted addressed critics of the bill who worry that it will only add to the federal debt rather than reduce it.

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