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Ron Johnson: “The federal government was never designed to run a quarter…”

Featuring: Ron Johnson, Republican | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

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Senator Johnson Discusses Regulations on Fox and Friends

Published | Video Starts at 03:43

Well, I'd say that's what the voters of Wisconsin tapped me to do, is come here and try and fix this very broken system. Brian, The federal government was never designed to run a quarter of our economy. And that's what we're asking it to do. There's a reason this government's dysfunctional. It wasn't designed to manage 25% of our economy. We need to start rolling back the size of government. (03:43–03:48)

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Asserts that the federal government is not designed to manage 25% of the economy.

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