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Let's bring in Mahek Cook, attorney and CEO of American Frontier Strategies. The president is laying all of this at the feet of his predecessor. He says the Biden administration made it too easy to enroll in Obamacare and even incited people to enroll new claimants, even if they weren't necessarily legitimate, Mahek. Well, John, that's correct. I mean, remember Obamacare was there to help the worst of the worst people that were in poverty that really needed help in government aid. And what did Joe Biden do? He came in and he ensured that there were lax laws so that immediately somebody that is now a healthcare provider, I call them fraudulent fixers, John, they came in and they were motivated to get people on the Obamacare exchange. So they not only stole identities of individuals, they changed people's status when they didn't even know that they were enrolling in this healthcare and then they continued to collect checks. And the only reason that we know about this fraud is because President Trump has flipped the script. No longer does government own us. They owe us, they owe every taxpayer money because we have been robbed blind from all of the Democrat policies that have allowed for these lax laws and not enough oversight. And that's what President Trump is bringing back. I can't remember the last president who said, "We overcharged you and we're going to give your money back." That's what businesses say. That's what successful businesses say. And that's exactly what President Trump is doing for taxpayers today. Take a look at the chart. In 2021, the first year of the Biden administration, there were 12 million people on the Obamacare rolls. By 2025, that number had doubled, 24 million. So it's, I guess, understandable that the administration would go looking for fraud there because of the way so many of these people were enrolled. John, you're right, and many of the enrollees weren't even asking for healthcare. They had never visited a doctor. So you start scratching your head and first you say, "How did that number double?" That's the first alert as a compliance attorney I look at. If you're spending 12 million and then it's doubling and then you remember the open border that Joe Biden allowed, millions upon millions of illegals to come into our country, less checks and balances, that screams fraud. And then you start looking at some of these fraudulent fixers and you start realizing they're making millions of dollars. So this is exactly what we needed. Every time I look at tax season, I know my business is being audited and it's time to start auditing Washington. And that's what President Trump did through Doge. And that's not what he's doing through every single program, but the numbers just don't make sense. And anytime that happens, it's a red flag and this is why we need more audits in government. That checks and balances works both ways. And President Trump made that announcement in the great state of Ohio where I live in. So people are excited to get that $500 back in my state and 30 other states. We're finally being recognized because many of us have been saying, John, we're being overtaxed, we're being overcharged and there's fraud occurring. And President Trump is the only president who actually listened. The vice president is talking about how the fraud was established. Listen. What happened under the Biden administration is that we created a brokerage program whereby we would pay a broker, I think $25 if they enrolled somebody in Obamacare. OK, sounds reasonable. However, we would also at the same time, we massively relaxed the eligibility criteria and also the checks. So imagine what happens when you make it much, much easier to enroll fraudulent people in Obamacare while simultaneously paying brokers to enroll people in Obamacare. You get a lot of fraud. And that's the fraud that they're trying to claw back now, Mahak. John, that's right, these are the fraudulent fixtures. I mean, basically what the Biden administration did was say, we are going to incentivize you to go out and find as many individuals that can enroll in Obamacare. And then essentially you're getting a kickback from enrolling individuals. So you were seeing massive amounts of fraud because again, many of these individuals didn't ask to enroll, didn't even know that their health care status was enrolling. So instead now, in the future, what we really need are codes for individuals that are actually enrolling so that they can check a box and say, yes, I need to enroll in Obamacare. But that wasn't occurring. So anybody on the side of fraud could essentially say, I'm going to enroll hundreds and thousands of people and make millions of dollars at taxpayer expenses. And President Trump is putting an end to it. At $25 a head, yeah, you can see why they would want to get as many people enrolled as they could. cook. Thanks. Thank you.

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