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Mehmet Oz: “$1.2 billion already in just the last few months were spent…”

Featuring: Mehmet Oz, Republican | Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services | National

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Dr. Mehmet Oz on state of U.S. health care amid government shutdown

Published | Video Starts at 01:32

Now we were told that this wasn't happening. It turns out the number. You ready for this major $1.2 billion already in just the last few months were spent by Medicaid go out of this agency federal dollars to support states who are paying for illegal immigrants. Now this is maddening for a bunch of reasons. First, we were told it wasn't happening. So the one big beautiful bill gave us the ability to go after this funding, which we're now doing. (01:32–01:44)

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Claims that $1.2 billion in federal Medicaid dollars were spent on illegal immigrants in recent months.

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