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'We're Removing The Waste And Fraud': Markwayne Mullin Defends Cuts To Healthcare In GOP Budget
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6/9/2025
During a CNN interview on Sunday, Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) spoke about cuts to healthcare in the Republican budget.
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Let's talk about what we're actually doing because Bernie Sanders and the Democrat Party
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they're absolutely lying about us kicking people off. We're not kicking people off that deserve
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that hold on we're not we're not talking about people that are that deserve and qualify
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for Medicaid or Medicare. What we're doing is getting rid of the waste and fraud. There's
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over six million people on Medicaid right now that do not qualify underneath current policies.
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They don't they didn't qualify underneath the Biden policies but yet the Biden administration
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allowed them to come on and they're robbing Medicaid blind and therefore it's almost becoming
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unsustainable for those that actually deserve it. Anybody that qualifies for Medicaid they're not
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going to see a reduction in benefits. They're not going to see a reduction in coverage. All we're
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doing is removing the people that are frauding the American taxpayers out of health care. That's it
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and no one can say anything different. President Trump has made it very clear we're not
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reducing or cutting Medicaid benefits. The Republicans have said the same thing. We're
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removing the waste and fraud. I have talked to to Josh Hawley who is very outspoken about this. I got
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a great relationship with Josh. Josh is doing exactly what he should be doing. He's protecting
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to make sure that those that need it are are protected from it. There's nothing wrong with him
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questioning the bill. The fact is you can't point to anyone that's losing coverage that deserves
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and qualifies for the care but he's being very cautious and I respect him for doing that
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but we have made it very clear and the president's made it clear we're not kicking people off that
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qualify for Medicare and Medicaid coverage. We're just getting rid of the waste and fraud. You can read
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it yourself. Dana in fact or Dana I bet you you have read it and you can't find where we're reducing
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coverage for anybody. We are simply kicking the waste and fraud out of the Medicaid and Medicare system
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that are literally robbing the taxpayers of the American people.
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