Johnson Exposes Weaponized Federal Government During COVID at Heritage Foundation Event [Video]

On Tuesday, U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) spoke at the ‘Weaponization of U.S. Government’ Symposium hosted by the Heritage Foundation. Interviewed by Children’s Health Defense President Mary Holland, the senator gave an account of the federal government’s weaponization during COVID and stressed the importance of Congressional oversight. 

Watch Sen. Johnson’s full remarks here.

On the weaponization of government during the COVID pandemic

“I’m passionate about this, because I’ve been living with this insanity since early 2020 when… I made the comment, ‘we tragically lose tens of thousands of people on the highway, but we don’t shut down our highway system. We can’t afford to shut down the American economy.’ So Fauci from the podium said, ‘oh that’s way out there.’ No, it was a good analogy, but again, nothing we did during COVID made sense whatsoever. It was all insane… 

“All the things we knew were just thrown out because our entire response was focused on …