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Steve Scalise: “How to save great programs like Medicare and Medicaid and…”

Featuring: Steve Scalise, Republican | House Majority Leader, U.S. House Louisiana, District 1

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Speaker Johnson Joins Steve Scalise and August Pfluger on the Right to the Point Podcast

Published | Video Starts at 11:38

And the special thing about RFC is we always have produced budgets that show how we can balance the federal budget within the 10 year budget window. Not easy to do, but we've laid out how to do it. How to save great programs like Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security from bankruptcy. They're all going bankrupt. and we need to save all of them from bankruptcy. But Democrats just want to demagogue and let them go bust. (11:38–11:45)

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Asserts that Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security are going bankrupt and need saving.

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