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Mike Johnson: “We did this in the first Trump administration before COVID…”

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

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Interview with House Speaker Mike Johnson on Trump Agenda and Congressional Challenges

Published | Video Starts at 07:54

… in earnest, and when you find and eliminate fraud, waste and abuse, that has a way of spurring on a pro growth economy. And remember, Leland, this is not theory. We did this in the first Trump administration before COVID We had the greatest economy in the history of the world. We had every demographic doing better. Wages were going up, the labor participation rate was at an all time high and inflation was low because the economy is working again. (07:54–08:01)

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Asserts that the U.S. had the greatest economy in history before COVID during the first Trump administration.

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