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James Comer Jr.: “Minnesota's social programs, from Medicaid to the SNAP…”

Featuring: James Comer Jr., Republican | U.S. House Kentucky, 1st Congressional District

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Minnesota Is 'GROUND ZERO' for government fraud, says Rep James Comer

Published | Video Starts at 02:50

And one of the things that we fought over in the big beautiful bill was trying to tighten the eligibility requirements up for Medicaid. Minnesota's social programs, from Medicaid to the SNAP benefits, everything is just unbelievably invaded with massive amounts of fraud. And we're finally going to do something about it because we've got the help of some state employees that have come forward. Hopefully that will happen in other states. Yeah. (02:50–03:02)

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