Trump: ‘We’re going to start paying down debt’

By Pete Kasperowicz

Published October 31, 2018 8:17pm ET

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President Trump indicated Wednesday the U.S. government would start paying down the $21.6 trillion in debt it’s accrued over the last 80 years.

“We’re going to start paying down debt, we have a lot of debt,” Trump said during a Wednesday discussion at the White House on the economy. “We’re going to start paying down debt.”

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