Is that going to satisfy you quickly, Senator, as an offset for the new spending in that bill? 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 a figure to trillion. When we did our first reconciliation bill, we didn't have the next Shirley tapes. (03:34–03:40)
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