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Mike Johnson: “There's a high degree of fraud, waste, and abuse in…”

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

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Speaker Johnson on NBC's Meet the Press

Published | Video Starts at 08:04

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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