So as we've discussed many times, what we did was we went in to eliminate the fraud, waste and abuse and drive down the cost. The cbo, the Congressional Budget Office, evaluated that and said, you know what? That's right. It will achieve that. It will save $185 billion for taxpayers because you got ineligible enrollees off the system. We need to do that same thing across the board through health care. We tried that in the big beautiful bill when it went over to the Senate. (05:06–05:17)
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