The one big beautiful bill does not cut Medicaid. What it does is strengthen the program. And we talked about this Kristen, is that the problem is There's a high degree of fraud, waste, and abuse in [Medicaid], tens of billions of dollars every year. What we did went in to go in and fix that. We introduced work requirements, which is a wildly popular notion in public opinion polling because it makes sense. (08:04–08:11)
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Claims significant fraud, waste, and abuse in Medicaid costing tens of billions annually.
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