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

By Pete Kasperowicz
Published October 31, 2018 8:17pm ET
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Trump: ‘We’re going to start paying down debt’
FILE - In this July 31, 2018, file photo, President Donald Trump pauses during remarks at a campaign rally at Florida State Fairgrounds Expo Hall in Tampa, Fla. The Robesonian paper in Lumberton, N.C., announced it’s dropping an 8-page color comics section from Sunday editions. A newspaper editorial said it cut the comics because of rising newsprint costs spurred by Trump administration tariffs on imported paper. The newspaper says it’s “a decision that we really believe was made at the White House.” | (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

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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