SwiftUI Text ignoring newline and tab characters - swift

I am attempting to render a multiline text block in SwiftUI using the Text component. I'm passing it a string that contains newlines and tabs, however whenever it is rendered, all of these special characters appear to be removed from text and the content is all rendered in a straight line. Does anyone have any ideas how to convince SwiftUI to actually let this be multiple lines?
let s = "{\n\t\"hey\":\"there\"\n\n\n}"
Text(.init("`\(s)`"))
The above code renders as:

From the docs modify your code accordingly.
Ex.
Text(“In SwiftUI Multiline text is great. \n Right?”)
.lineLimit(nil)

this works for me:
let s = "{\n\t\"hey\":\"there\"\n\n\n}"
Text("`\(s)`")
or
Text("\(s)")
or
Text(s)

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