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Jamie Raskin: “One dollar of an improper payment is a dollar too much, whether it is a dollar at Medicaid, or the VA, or the Pentagon.”

On the recordApril 11, 2018
One dollar of an improper payment is a dollar too much, whether it is a dollar at Medicaid, or the VA, or the Pentagon.
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Jamie Raskin
Democratic · Maryland

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Stressing the need to reduce improper payments across all government programs.

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