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'We're Headed Over A Cliff': Former GOP Sen. Judd Gregg On The Deficit

The former chair of the Senate Budget Committee tells Here & Now's Peter O'Dowd that Republicans have abandoned fiscal responsibility.
Then-Senate Budget Committee ranking member Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) raises his voice while questioning White House Office of Management and Budget Director Peter Orszag about the Obama administration's FY2011 budget on Capitol Hill on Feb. 2, 2010 in Washington, D.C. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

new projection from the Congressional Budget Office predicts a more than $1 trillion deficit in about two years. That estimate takes into account both the $1.5 trillion tax cut passed last year and the $1.3 trillion spending bill Congress passed in March.

Former New Hampshire governor and Republican Sen. Judd Gregg, who served as chair of the Senate Budget Committee, tells Here & Now‘s Peter O’Dowd that Republicans have abandoned fiscal responsibility.

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