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Ron Johnson: “We're not addressing the crisis of a military industrial…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 17:43

All we're really doing is voting on nominations. We're not addressing the crisis of the border. We're not addressing the crisis of our debt and deficit. We're not addressing the crisis of a military industrial complex that seems to be ruling the rooster. There are so many significant issues. The dangers of EMP and the vulnerability of our electrical grid, the insanity of spending trillions of dollars on climate change knowing full well there's nothing we can really do to impact it, not to any great degree. (17:43–17:53)

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