Stephen Miller: “If every single person who wanted to enroll in SNAP or…”

“You can solve 95% of this problem with simple technological verification and data sharing measures. That is in technology that was invented 20 years ago. Now, the technology today, of course, is even more astonishing. But If every single person who wanted to enroll in SNAP or enroll in Medicaid or enroll in public housing within a shared database that the federal government had access to to verify age, citizenship, criminal record, other basic biographic facts, that single step alone would save taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars. And you have to ask yourself, why would any politician oppose something so fundamental? We're not even debating eligibility rules. An important but separate debate.” (46:52–47:15)

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