WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 -- Sen. Patty Murray issued the following press release:
Today, at a Senate Budget Committee hearing on Medicaid, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), a senior member and former chair of the Budget Committee, slammed Republicans' sham hearing on Medicaid fraud. Senator Murray called out Trump for pardoning criminals convicted of Medicaid fraud and Republicans who voted to slash Medicaid to give tax cuts to billionaires last year in Trump's Big Ugly Bill.
[MEDICAID FRAUD HYPOCRISY]
Senator Murray began by asking Jonathan Ingram, Vice President of Policy and Research at the Foundation for Government Accountability, about how Trump and Republicans' say they want to crack down on Medicaid fraud; meanwhile Trump has actually p...