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Mike Johnson: “We put in reforms to Medicaid, as I mentioned, that cut out…”

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

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Speaker Johnson Joins Fox News Sunday with Shannon Bream

Published | Video Starts at 02:40

It was never designed to be affordable. Republicans are the party that are fixing health care. We just demonstrated that in the one big, beautiful bill, the working families tax cut. We put in reforms to Medicaid, as I mentioned, that cut out fraud, waste and abuse. It got ineligible recipients off of the program and, and it's brought down the cost and made the resources spread more broadly to the people who actually need it. (02:40–02:45)

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Asserts that Republicans reformed Medicaid to reduce fraud, waste, and abuse.

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