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Mike Johnson: “We've saved $185 billion in fraud, waste and abuse in…”

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

Speaker Johnson Joins Squawk Box on CNBC

Published September 30, 2025 | Video Starts at 12:24

We've got tens of millions of people who were not properly enrolled in the programs off the programs now. We're not giving the benefits to illegal aliens anymore. We've saved $185 billion in fraud, waste and abuse in Medicaid. Okay? It was a terribly flawed program. What we did in the one big beautiful bill is we shored it up. (12:24–12:31)

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Asserts that $185 billion has been saved in Medicaid through reducing fraud, waste, and abuse.

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