Russ Vought
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It eliminates health care coverage for more than 15 million Americans, according to the CBO.
The Kaiser Family Foundation says there's actually more than 17 million Americans who will lose their health care.
Are they really all, according to you, really?
You're going to sit here with a straight face and say they're all illegals, they're all defrauding the system?
That's actually your position?
Yes, with regard to the people that have lost... I mean, that's laughable.
Sorry, I'll give you a chance to respond.
You have a number of issues with regard to your comments there.
Well, wait, let me just... Number one... Sorry, wait, wait.
We'll reclaim my time.
I just want to be clear.
I'm citing, we acknowledge, the CBO figure.
That's where I'm getting the $15 million from.
And the Kaiser Family Foundation says $17 million.
You're saying...
None of them are legitimately on this, even though we had one of them actually testify before us.
I didn't say all of them are illegals.
I said there's also the benefit of people returning to the workforce because they're able bodied individuals or they should not have been on the system regardless because of the inability to address fraud in the aftermath.
OK, so they're all either illegals or defrauding the system.
Well, that's certainly not a provocative statement that we have fraud all over the country, is it?