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J. D. Vance: “It's actually a scandal, I think, that the federal…”

Featuring: J. D. Vance, Republican | Vice President of the United States | National

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Joe Rogan Experience #2221 - JD Vance - Part 1

Published | Video Starts at 1:22:24

And then if there is an EMP attack, you just get those transformers to swap out the ones that were destroyed and then the grid is back up and running. It's actually a scandal, I think, that the federal government has not... spent $15 billion to buy enough power transformers to have a backup for every transformer in the country. every transformer in the country. We should do that. Yeah. One of the things that Trump talked about that a lot of people probably weren't aware of was the damage that these wind turbines are doing to whales. (1:22:24–1:22:38)

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Asserts that the federal government should invest $15 billion in backup power transformers.

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