Hearkening back to his past public policy punditry, Laffey argued that he correctly opposed the COVID-19 lockdowns and sounded the alarms early on about how pandemic relief, such as the Paycheck Protection Program, could become a bonanza for fraud.

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So that's almost double the national debt, certainly almost triple what we actually borrow at the public level," Laffey said.

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