Republicans have a lot of work to do to make President Donald Trump’s massive policy bill “acceptable,” Sen. Ted Budd, R-N.C., told Newsmax on Wednesday.

“I mean, how about taking 1.4 million people that are on Medicaid that aren’t even in our country legally,” he said on “Carl Higbie FRONTLINE.”

“People that are registered in more than one state at a time. I think we can get to those things. What about somebody that’s at home and not even trying to go to work to get them to go to work? I mean, those are simple things we can do, which will get us well on the way to fixing this problem.”

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