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Mike Johnson: “We had the greatest economy in the history of the world…”

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

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Interview with Speaker Mike Johnson on the 'One Big Beautiful Bill' and Congressional Challenges

Published | Video Starts at 20:24

Everybody will remember before COVID I mean, it seems like 20 years ago now, but the first two years of Trump administration because of those pro growth policies, reducing taxes, reducing took off like a rocket. We had the greatest economy in the history of the world [during the first two years of the Trump administration]. Everybody was doing better. Every demographic, more jobs, more opportunity, higher wages, more job participation. We're going to do that again, but we're going to do it on steroids. (20:24–20:27)

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Asserts that the U.S. economy was the greatest in history during the first two years of Trump's presidency.

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