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Ted Cruz: “The USDA puts improper food stamp payments at $10.4 billion…”

Featuring: Ted Cruz, Republican | U.S. Senate, Texas

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More than 5,000 applicants in this state used foreign based email addresses to apply. And countless others used disposable emails, the kind designed for identity theft and fishing. Look, The USDA puts improper food stamp payments at $10.4 billion a year with a B. That's more than one in every ten dollars spent on the program. And so now we're going after that fraud. And I'm here to say, yes, this is what I voted for. (24:23–24:32)

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