Ron Johnson: “LexisNexis puts [federal government fraud] at a figure to…”

“Yes, because there's so much of it. You know, the lowest estimate for fraud in the federal government comes from GAO at $250 billion a year. LexisNexis puts [federal government fraud] at a figure to trillion. When we did our first reconciliation bill, we didn't have the next Shirley tapes. We didn't understand, we didn't know about the massive tip of the iceberg fraud in the Somali population, Minnesota, California, other states as well.” (03:39–03:42)

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