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Mike Johnson: “They expanded Medicaid to cover all able bodied illegal…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 25:53

And you see, you just go down the list. The California loophole. You know what they did in California, Gavin Newsom and the team out in California, They expanded Medicaid to cover all able bodied illegal alien adults. These men who could be working or whatever, I mean, they're not even citizens. Never intended by Congress. They put that on the tab of the taxpayer. And so we reversed it. (25:53–25:59)

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