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Ron Johnson: “You have to shrink the size of federal government.”

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

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Sen. Ron Johnson Talks Campaign in Wisconsin and the Trump Assassination Attempts

Published | Video Starts at 10:20

I mean, I'm jazzed about Trump winning, Bobby Kennedy handling chronic illness, Elon Musk looking these agencies and making them efficient because that's what we have to do. You have to shrink the size of federal government. You have to devolve governing authority back to the states, back to the city. That's the long term program. And we better get going on it because government right now only ratchets into one direction, just keeps growing. (10:20–10:23)

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Asserts the need to reduce the size of the federal government.

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