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Sheila Weinberg, Founder and CEO, Truth in Accounting

How big is the national debt? The conventional answer is around 18 trillion dollars. But a group called Truth in Accounting says the real debt is more like 81 t...

Federal News Network Staff

June 12, 2015 10:00 am

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How big is the national debt? The conventional answer is around 18 trillion dollars. But a group called Truth in Accounting says the real debt is more like 81 trillion. Truth in accounting CEO and founder Sheila Weinberg joined Emily Kopp on the Federal Drive to explain how the group gets from 18 to 81.