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Mike Johnson: “I mean, tens of billions of dollars a year wasted and given…”

Featuring: Mike Johnson, Republican | Speaker of the United States House of Representatives | National

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Speaker Johnson Joins the KEEL Morning Show with Mike & McCarty

Published | Video Starts at 07:30

We looked at the Medicaid program. Right, and you had that same problem in Medicaid. It was full of fraud, waste and abuse. I mean, tens of billions of dollars a year wasted and given to able bodied young men without dependents, for example. They were riding the wagon instead. And so we went in and rooted that out and we saved the program that way because it's intended for the elderly, disabled and, you know, young women without a spouse and young children. (07:30–07:37)

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Asserts that tens of billions of dollars a year were wasted in Medicaid on able-bodied young men without dependents.

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