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Ron Johnson: “At the lower end of the estimate of fraud, 250 billion…”

Featuring: Ron Johnson, Republican | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

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'We Need To Be Addressing This Aggressively': Ron Johnson Asks Vought About Fraud

Published | Video Starts at 08:22

I mean, you know how tough it was during the last reconciliation just achieving 1.5 trillion, which we didn't achieve. I mean, because we spend in other areas. At the lower end of the estimate of fraud, 250 billion, that's 2.5 trillion over 10 years. at the Lexisnet, that's $10 trillion. I mean those are the kind of figures we have to be looking at. That's kind of savings we have to start achieving. (08:22–08:28)

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Asserts that the lower estimate of fraud is $250 billion, equating to $2.5 trillion over 10 years.

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