Exclusive — House Budget Chair Jodey Arrington Pushes Bill to Combat ‘Crisis Scale’ Medicare, Medicaid Fraud

House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-TX) told Breitbart News that fraud across the federal government has reached what he considers a crisis, saying Congress needs to give investigators more personnel, modern technology, and authority as he pushes legislation investing $28 billion to combat fraud in Medicare and Medicaid.

“The more I dig into it, the more we focus on what reforms are necessary to stop it, and the more I talk to Dr. Oz and folks at the White House involved in the fraud task force, the more I’m convinced it is at a crisis scale,” Arrington told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview. He said it was “mind...