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This is the best of with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton.

Buck, I wanted to talk about this because we mentioned it yesterday.

The Senate has passed a $95.3 billion payment, your tax dollars going to fund the border and protect the border of

Ukraine, Taiwan, and Israel.

22, I believe, is the number Republican senators supported this bill.

It's now moving on to the House.

Yesterday I was reading.

And I just want to ask you, I want all of you to think about this as a broad idea.

We are now 35 trillion roughly in debt.

When the Tea Party started and became an issue, we were at 10 trillion

dollars in debt. So we're averaging adding about a trillion dollars a year to our national debt.

I saw a report from the Congressional Budget Office.

I was reading about it yesterday, Buck,

that we are on pace to have a $54 trillion federal deficit a decade from now.

And my son is 16 years old.

He's a sophomore in high school.

And he's just starting to study economics.

And we were having this conversation recently.

The dollar is the default currency for the world.

What happens if suddenly our foreign adversaries who own trillions of dollars in American debt?

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