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Mike Johnson: “We have to do all those things simultaneously, and we can't.”

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

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Interview with U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson on Tariff Proposals and Congressional Challenges

Published | Video Starts at 08:36

And so all these things will happen together in this large piece of legislation. We'll have a lot of tools that will help grow the economy and at the same time reduce our $36 trillion federal debt. We have to do all those things simultaneously, and we can't. All right, Speaker Johnson joining us here on Acadian. As morning news going to shift gears real quick, things get crazy in Washington, D.C. and I know things in the House can get a little hectic. (08:36–08:40)

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Asserts the necessity of simultaneously addressing multiple economic issues.

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