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J. D. Vance: “I think the answer is hundreds of billions of dollars a year…”

Featuring: J. D. Vance, Republican | Vice President of the United States | National

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LIVE | JD Vance outlines federal anti-fraud initiatives

Published | Video Starts at 1:08:38

It's making it harder to access health care, and it's absolutely fleecing the American taxpayer. It is a lose, lose, lose proposition. You know, I've seen efforts to try to quantify this. I think the answer is hundreds of billions of dollars a year [related to illegal immigrant fraud]. Whether it's 300 or 6, it is a lot of money. Between Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, prison fees, everything that goes into the criminal migrant problem in the United States of America, it's a lot of money. (1:08:38–1:08:43)

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Asserts that fraud related to illegal immigrants costs the U.S. hundreds of billions annually.

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