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Mike Johnson: “Medicaid is rife with fraud.”

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

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Speaker Johnson Joins the Mark Levin Show

Published | Video Starts at 02:36

We're doing it in the, in the one big beautiful bill, the working families tax cut. We put in real institutional reforms. Medicaid. Why? Because that was the lowest hanging fruit. Because Medicaid is rife with fraud. We went in and weeded out. We eliminated the fraud, waste and abuse. We got ineligible enrollees off the program and we got able bodied young men without dependents, for example, back to work. (02:36–02:39)

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