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Mike Johnson: “That's about 1.7 million people you're talking about or…”

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

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Speaker Johnson joins The Lead with Jake Tapper

Published | Video Starts at 04:01

And I will take that to any town hall in America anywhere and explain it. They made that Choice. That's about 1.7 million people you're talking about or about 4.7 million people in fact. But also we've got the illegal aliens out of Medicaid. That's 1.4 million people and about 1.2 are people that were receiving Medicaid from multiple states at the same time. (04:01–04:07)

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Asserts that 1.7 to 4.7 million people are affected by Medicaid work requirements.

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