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Citizen Podcast

256 | Drew Johnson

Citizen Podcast

Tetherball Academy Media

Society & Culture, Education

51.8K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Political columnist Drew Johnson joins the show to talk about how poorly the government was spending our tax dollars, the Trump administration setting a torch to that waste, and the U.S.'s intellectual property war with China.


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0:56.0

China steals $600 billion a year worth of our intellectual property rights as Americans.

1:03.1

And a lot of the ways that we've made that happen has been because of bad policies by stupid presidents and bad members of Congress.

1:12.3

Let's go.

1:17.3

Welcome to Citizen.

1:23.2

We've got a special guest today.

1:24.8

Drew Johnson ran for Congress in Nevada.

1:28.5

And you are an expert on government waste.

1:33.5

And that seems to be a relevant topic today.

1:39.9

I'm really excited that President Trump seems to have taken an interest in cutting wasteful spending,

1:46.4

making government more efficient and effective for taxpayers.

1:49.7

So something I've worked on for 25 years, and it's like the first time we've ever had

1:53.7

a president who actually wants to focus on that.

1:57.0

Yeah, I was, it's so weird, man.

2:00.5

It's like for as long as I can remember in American politics, the presumption is that

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