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Ted Cruz: “CBO's projections are consistently wrong in this [context of…”

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Ted Cruz Discusses Senate Amendments to Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' and Medicaid Concerns

Published | Video Starts at 09:14

And they say, well, gosh, if they don't get a job, they'll lose the benefit. Look, the whole purpose of this is to incentivize them to get a job. And As I said, CBO's projections are consistently wrong in this [context of Medicaid and work requirements]. I'll mention one other aspect of Medicaid that is actually Obamacare. And this is something President Obama did, created a differential. So in a lot of big blue states, they've done what's called Medicaid expansion. (09:14–09:20)

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Asserts that CBO projections on Medicaid and work requirements are often incorrect.

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