Rep. Andy Harris
Appearances
The Charlie Kirk Show
How the Big Beautiful Bill Affects Our Big Beautiful Border
Bottom line is if we don't get significant spending reduction, this bill is not going anywhere this week. We were warning about it in the Freedom Caucus for for really years that we have to get our debt and deficit in order. You know, they're whistling past the graveyard. It's like that never happened. But it did happen. And we have to get back to pre-COVID spending levels wherever we can.
The Charlie Kirk Show
How the Big Beautiful Bill Affects Our Big Beautiful Border
We certainly can with Medicaid because the fraud, waste and abuse, the gaming of the system, the giving benefits to, you know, two and a half million illegal immigrants. I mean, this is ridiculous. It has to stop. We have a long way to go. We don't get there by Wednesday. And the word is they want to have this vote Wednesday. There's just no way it's passing on Wednesday. He continues.
The Charlie Kirk Show
How the Big Beautiful Bill Affects Our Big Beautiful Border
This is the graph of what the Republican plan is for Medicaid spending over the next 10 years. This assumes that we actually get all the able-bodied, single people without children on Medicaid to agree to work 20 hours a week or volunteer at a church or train. And if we eliminate all the fraud, waste, and abuse, and there's plenty of it,
The Charlie Kirk Show
How the Big Beautiful Bill Affects Our Big Beautiful Border
We're left with at least a 25% increase in Medicaid over the next 10 years from the current spending level. Only in Washington could anyone claim that's a cut.