WASHINGTON – Congressman Byron Donalds (R-FL) joined Bolling! on Real America's Voice to discuss the indictment of NY AG Letitia James for alleged mortgage fraud, disturbing comments recently made by Virginia Attorney General Candidate Jay Jones, and rural hospital funding in the Working Families Tax Cut.
Watch the full interview here
"One thing I know is, nobody’s above the law. That’s what the left told us repeatedly over the last couple of years":
"Those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones - that’s the first reaction I got. Number two, I mean look, I mean, you can’t do what she did, what she’s accused of doing. What she’s accused is lying on mortgage applications. You just can’t do it and considering the fact that she launched one of the most political and insane prosecutions, civil prosecutions, against an American, let alone President Trump. Saying that Mar-a-Lago was valued of 18 million dollars. I mean that's just stupid, you know... One thing I know is, nobody’s above the law. That’s what the left told us repeatedly over the last couple of years. And so you can’t defraud on a mortgage application, that’s the facts. Letitia James is accused of doing that. She’ll have her day in court, we'll see how it goes."
"They [Democrats] want to go back to the waste fraud and abuse system in Medicaid as opposed to having direct funding for those same rural hospitals":
"Well what happened between when we were going through the president’s agenda is that there were adjustments to waste, fraud and abuse in Medicaid. According to GAO, there’s about fifty billion dollars every single year of waste and fraud and abuse in the Medicaid system. So what we did was go through some of the loopholes that states have been abusing to basically game the system to get more money out of the federal government. What we also did, as we put together fifty billion dollars specifically for rural hospitals. Something, by the way, the Democrats wanna get rid of, they want to go back to the waste fraud and abuse system in Medicaid as opposed to having direct funding for those same rural hospitals. So we have a solution in place today according to the law. Democrats want to change that because they want the old system where there were no checks and balances. And states like California, Illinois, New York could just game the system repeatedly. Now that doesn’t mean that there’s not more work to do on Medicaid. I think there’s a lot more work that can be done in the Medicaid system and in health care overall. That' something, where again, you gotta have the votes, and you have to have the will in order to get that through Capitol Hill and to the president’s desk for signature."
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