Political Quotes

“It is interesting; the prior amendment that passed added $25 million more to this navigator program. For the plan year 2017, navigators received a total of $62.5 million in grants and yet only enrolled 81,426 individuals. That is less than 1 percent of the total enrollees. You see, the issue here isn't whether we should or shouldn't enroll more people. The issue is who is most efficient with the taxpayer or private-sector dollar to do that. We keep pouring more and more money into this navigator program and we know there is all this, well, I guess I am going to call it waste. I don't know if it is fraud. But holy smokes, as I have said before, one grantee, according to The Wall Street Journal, took in $200,000 and enrolled one person--one person. You want to have a Government Accountability Office report and investigation, let's look at the underlying program and how in the heck that could happen. And then they also found the top 10 expensive navigators collected $2.77 million and signed up 314. These aren't my numbers. These are The Wall Street Journal investigative reporters. You know, in the press, these are facts, which caused the Las Vegas Review-Journal to editorialize that: ``The navigator scheme is a make-work government jobs program rife with corruption and highly susceptible to scam artists. It's a slush fund for progressive constituent groups.'' Not my words, that is the press. I have a journalism degree.…”