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Mike Johnson: “President Trump is taking legitimate executive action to…”

Featuring: Mike Johnson, Republican | Speaker of the United States House of Representatives | National

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Mike Johnson says big changes by DOGE, Trump administration will ‘ruffle some feathers’ at presser

Published | Video Starts at 02:03

Those things were actually illegal. And the Democratic Party cheered it. They didn't oppose it at all. President Trump is taking legitimate executive action to root out waste, fraud and abuse in all these federal programs. That's what the American people demand and deserve. That's what they voted for. They voted for a real analysis and a real change, transformational kind of change in the way the federal government works. (02:03–02:12)

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Asserts that President Trump is legitimately addressing waste, fraud, and abuse in federal programs.

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