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Ron Johnson: “These generalized shutdown orders was really not the way we…”

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

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DC Wrap Interview Series: U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson

Published | Video Starts at 05:42

So is there anything you worked on you particularly want to highlight? Well, kind of going back to what we need to do to open up our economy, I've always felt that These generalized shutdown orders was really not the way we should approach this. Rather than shutting down the economy and then listing the businesses that we deemed were essential, we should have done is basically made the assumption that every business, every organization … (05:42–05:47)

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