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James Comer Jr.: “We can't continue to spend $3 trillion a year more than we…”

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 05:19

… that you guys are going to get to the bottom of some of this and there's going to be some actual reform? Great questions. Why are we doing it? Because We can't continue to spend $3 trillion a year more than we take in in Washington. And that's what the annual deficit is, $3 trillion. Our welfare budgets are growing much larger than the taxpayers can afford. So we've got to look at states where there's massive amounts of fraud in the wel. (05:19–05:25)

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