Amid a hectic push to pass a House budget reconciliation bill by Independence Day, House Speaker Mike Johnson said Tuesday he thinks Republicans can find hundreds of billions of dollars in savings by eliminating Medicaid waste, fraud, and abuse.

The Medicaid issue is the trickiest part of Republicans’ push to pass a bill, which would boost funding of border security while also preventing President Donald Trump’s 2017 tax cuts from expiring at the end of the year.

On Monday, House Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., confidently stated in an interview that the Government Accountability Office’s estimate of approximately $50 billion wasted a year in Medicaid means Republicans can save $500 billion in their 10-year budget framework.

Medicaid is for single mothers with small children who are just trying to make it.

It's not for 29-year-old males sitting on their couch playing video games.

We're going to find those guys, and we will SEND them back to work! pic.twitter.com/3n0egvEkxO

“That’s $500 billion over the 10-year budget cycle. Then you start taking out

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