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🗓️ 28 February 2025
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Joining me today is Gov. Jeff Landry of Louisiana. Since he took office last year, he’s implemented sweeping changes in public safety, tax policy, and education.
We discuss gains made in the state’s educational rankings, as well as his plans for boosting election integrity, increasing manufacturing, and ensuring fiscal responsibility.
Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.
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0:00.0 | For a long time, we've been convinced that the most conservative approach is free trade. |
0:04.2 | And when you go out into the real world, there's no such thing as free trade. |
0:07.4 | There's only such thing as fair trade. |
0:09.6 | Because what you do is you find that other countries are imposing their own will and that |
0:13.3 | they don't embrace what you would call free trade. |
0:16.1 | And I think the president recognizes that and he wants America to play on a level playing field. |
0:20.6 | Joining me today is Governor Jeff Landry of Louisiana. |
0:23.6 | Since he took office last year, he's implemented sweeping changes in public safety, tax policy, and education. |
0:30.6 | One of the contentious things was you decided that the Ten Commandments need to be in the schools. |
0:36.6 | I didn't think anything of it. |
0:38.1 | And then like the liberal media and people went crazy. |
0:42.9 | And I thought to myself, wow, I didn't know the Ten Commandments was a bad way to live your |
0:48.0 | life. |
0:49.0 | And we look forward to litigating this case. |
0:50.2 | This is American Thought Leaders and I'm Yanya Kellick. |
0:54.0 | Governor Jeff Landry, such a pleasure to have you on American Thought Leaders again. |
1:00.0 | Well, it's always great to be with Yaya. |
1:02.0 | So it's been about a year now since you've been in your role as governor. |
1:06.0 | What would you say are the biggest milestones you've been able to hit over the last year? |
1:11.6 | Yeah, you know, we hit the ground running last year in January, and we moved at breakneck speed. |
1:19.6 | We held two, three special sessions in a regular session in a 12-month period and really pushed our legislature on the promises that we made |
1:29.0 | to the people of Louisiana when we were running. And we worked on criminal justice reform, |
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