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Speaker 2: You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben ferguson.

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Speaker 3: Good Thursday morning. It's so nice to have you with

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Speaker 3: some really big breaking news. Representative James Comer now explaining

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Speaker 3: exactly what's at stake in the investigation to Biden's autopen use.

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Speaker 3: And yes, the White House is now opening an investigation

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Speaker 2: Story number one.

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Speaker 3: It is official. The White House now confirming they are

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Speaker 3: opening the autopen Biden investigation. Yes, you can smile. We

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Speaker 3: sitting President Joe Biden. The White House Council's Office has

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Speaker 3: House and the Press Secretary Caroline Levitt issued a statement

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Speaker 4: Whoever operated the autopen had a policy which is by

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Speaker 3: Now, let's talk about what the investigation is going to

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Speaker 3: encouraged the use of these one one, one five waivers

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Speaker 3: now never happened and despite federal law actually prohibiting them

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Speaker 3: go to unqualified aliens. That order pointed to existing law,

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Speaker 3: such as the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act

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Speaker 3: concerns about New York's green light law, which permits all

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Speaker 3: Now the Justice Department filed a lawsuit against that law,

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Speaker 3: arguing that a handstring's federal enforcement of immigration law. Hunt

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Speaker 3: that access, and to address these concerns, Hunt now demanded

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Speaker 3: that HOCHE will conduct a review of its Medicaid enrollment

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Speaker 3: the public, saying this New Yorkers deserve transparency, accountability, and

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Speaker 3: Policies to divert limited resources away from lawful recipients American

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 3: Hunt has also drawn speculation over recent weeks that he

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Speaker 3: in Texas in the twenty twenty six midterms, and this

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Speaker 3: would campaign on. Now, let me say one other thing

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Speaker 3: about this. We deserve answers. The American people, as taxpayers,

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Speaker 3: it is being diverted to six hundred and seventy thousand

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Speaker 3: I think is also a point that needs to be made.

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Speaker 3: You notice that Democrats did not deny in any of

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Speaker 3: the statements coming from the governor's office that illegal immigrants

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Speaker 3: some may, but most aren't, and most aren't receiving full benefits. Well,

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Speaker 3: that also goes for the same with the Americans's in

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Speaker 3: base that are eligible for Medicaid benefits as well. It

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Speaker 3: is supposed to help the weakest, the least, the poorest,

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Speaker 3: Americans do not qualify for full benefits. So why are

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Speaker 3: we giving those benefits to illegal immigrants? That's the question

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Speaker 3: every American should be asking.

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