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John Cornyn: “The investigators at GAO created fake identities and Social…”

Featuring: John Cornyn, Republican | U.S. Senate, Texas

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Cornyn Slams Democrats Dirty Obamacare Scheme for Waste, Fraud, and Abuse

Published | Video Starts at 08:31

They documented it. The report paints a picture that makes the notion of a so called clean extension with no changes outright laughable. That's not a clean extension. The investigators at GAO created fake identities and Social Security numbers for 24 individuals who did not exist. And they did this in order to find out what would happen when they took advantage of these Obamacare subsidies. (08:31–08:41)

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