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Jim Lane

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4. No, the actual figure would be much smaller.

Reply to djsunyc (Original post)

Fri Jan 13, 2017, 12:36 PM

Jan 2017

What they voted on was a resolution setting an overall budget framework. It envisioned that the total of the deficits incurred over the next ten years would exceed $9 trillion. The inclusion of the Obamacare repeal didn't mean that repeal was the sole cause of all that additional debt.

There was one estimate (from a deficit-hawk lobby group) that ACA repeal would increase the deficit by a ten-year total of $350 billion.

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