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Beth Van Duyne: “About $900 billion went out in unemployment dollars, and…”

Featuring: Beth Van Duyne, Republican | U.S. House, Texas, District 24

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Rep. Beth Van Duyne breaks down the massive scale of unemployment fraud

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Yeah. Well, you had About $900 billion went out in unemployment dollars, and about 135 billion of that they are suspecting was fraudulently received. Now, we know a billion dollars right now was in unemployment cards, these benefit cards that right now banks are just holding onto those dollars. They've been frozen. (00:00–00:12)

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Asserts that $135 billion of unemployment funds were suspected to be fraudulently received.

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