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Mike Johnson: “Medicaid won't be funding illegal aliens anymore or young…”

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

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Speaker Johnson Joins All Things with Kim Strassel (Wall Street Journal)

Published | Video Starts at 21:55

Why? Because we got ineligible enrollees off of Medicaid. And it's going to save, by the CBO's estimate, about $185 billion. We won't be. Medicaid won't be funding illegal aliens anymore or young able-bodied men with no dependents. who are, who are siphoning the system and draining resources from the elderly, disabled and young pregnant women who really need it. So we have Many more ideas like that. (21:55–22:07)

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Asserts that Medicaid reforms will stop funding for illegal aliens and certain able-bodied men.

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