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Vivek Ramaswamy: “The people we elected to run the government were not…”

Featuring: Vivek Ramaswamy, Libertarian, Conservative | Former Candidate, President of the United States | National

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Published | Video Starts at 01:36

I mean, the fact is you've got 4 million federal bureaucrats, none of whom were elected to those positions in the first place. And the dirty little secret is the people we elect to run the government, until this last November, The people we elected to run the government were not actually running the government. That changed when Donald Trump took office at inauguration. You have a US President that is actually running the show again. Look at that sweeping slate of executive orders. Look at fixing the immigration crisis. (01:36–01:44)

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Asserts that elected officials were not running the government until Trump took office.

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