Republicans want to tackle what they say is widespread Medicare and Medicaid fraud in another partisan tax-and-spending bill, using it as a way to pay for other priorities.
This comes as Republicans are eyeing a second party-line package to pay for the war against Iran, which could cost upwards of $200 billion, and to carry funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
“There is a host of mandatory spending programs and means-tested welfare programs and other entitlements that are leaking money like a sieve to fraudsters, and so that’s savings we can put against a defense supplemental,” said Rep.