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Ted Cruz: “Minnesota since 2018, they've spent about $18 billion on…”

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Ted Cruz: The scale of this is BREATHTAKING!

Published | Video Starts at 00:58

They go and they send an investigator in. The mom isn't even here. She's in Bangladesh. Look, the scale of the fraud is breathtaking. If you look just at Minnesota, Minnesota since 2018, they've spent about $18 billion on Medicaid. The federal prosecutors are saying more than half of that, more than $9 billion was fraudulent, was stolen. And listen, I don't think Minnesota is going to be the worst. We were just talking a minute ago. I think you're going to see even worse in California. (00:58–01:10)

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Claims that over $9 billion of Minnesota's Medicaid spending since 2018 was fraudulent.

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