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The economy was the focal point of Andrew Yang’s speech in Washington as he worked to attract caucus-goers to vote for him come Monday. Yang spoke to a group of about 30 people Thursday, on his second stop in Washington in January. He said if elected he’d work to distribute wealth across the country, “Washington D.C. today is the richest city in our country. Think about that for a second, what do they produce? None of us is sure. But business is awfully good. Donald Trump said he wanted to drain the swamp. I want to do something a little bit different, I want to distribute the swamp. What does that mean? Why do we employ hundreds of thousands of government workers in the most expensive city in our country? Why wouldn’t we move some of those jobs to Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, Iowa? We could save billions of dollars right off the bat and I would argue that those government agencies would make better decisions because they were based somewhere normal instead of the D.C. bubble where they just talk to each other all the time.”

He also said he supports a 12-year term limit for members of Congress. He’d propose it by saying current members would be exempt and that it’d begin with newly elected members of Congress. Yang would like to implement the Freedom Dividend that would give every adult American $1,000 per month.

Prior to running for office, Yang sold his education company and founded a non-profit aimed to help entrepreneurs create jobs called Venture for America.

The Iowa caucuses will be held Monday evening at 7 p.m.