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Dr. Oz Huddles With House Republicans Crafting Anti-Fraud Reconciliation Bill

Dr. Mehmet Oz, who heads the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), huddled with House Republicans on Wednesday to discuss anti-fraud measures, as House leadership seeks to pass a fraud-focused party-line budget bill.

On Wednesday morning, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., told reporters Oz was coming to meet with a group of House Republicans attempting to craft a budget reconciliation bill.

“We’ve had a working group for reconciliation 3.0 that I’ve been involved in for probably close to two months now, and we’ve had some very productive conversations,” Scalise said. “Dr. Oz has had some ideas… I thought it would be helpful if he shared that with the entire group, this working group on reconciliation 3.0”

Reconciliation is a process which allows for sweeping budgetary changes with only a simple majority in the Senate. Republicans have already used reconciliation to enact tax cuts in July 2025 and are currently attempting to use it to fund immigration enforcement for the rest of President Donald Trump’s term.

“It’s dealing with fraud,” Scalise said of Republicans’ next reconciliation priorities. “Dr. Oz has identified areas of waste… that could potentially go over $100 billion of stolen money and we want to help him get that money back to the taxpayer.”

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., likewise said on Wednesday that another reconciliation package is imminent—although he has said as much on multiple occasions in the past year without one........

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