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Mike Johnson: “There are policy decisions that were made in California at…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 06:57

And it is a huge disaster in LA and Southern California. The concern that a lot of people have is how much is human culpability involved in that. I mean, natural disasters occur, but There are policy decisions that were made in California at the state and local level, by all appearances, that made this exponentially worse. And so those are things that have to be factored in with, with regard to the level of aid and whether there are conditions upon that or safeguards. (06:57–07:05)

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