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3 Martini Lunch

'Dead People' Costing Taxpayers Billions in Obamacare Fraud

3 Martini Lunch

Radio America

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4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Join Jim and Greg for the Thursday 3 Martini Lunch as they break down President Trump rolling back Joe Biden’s fuel-economy mandates on automakers, a stunning new report on widespread Obamacare fraud, and Gov. Gavin Newsom’s push to tax former California residents to plug his state’s massive budget deficit.

First, they applaud President Trump for scrapping the Biden administration’s burdensome fuel-economy standards. The move will likely lower costs and will almost certainly save lives. Jim and Greg unload on Democrats who want to limit our choices on the vehicles we drive and in other areas of life.

Next, they groan as a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report shows that the government accepted 100 percent of fraudulent Obamacare exchange applications that the GAO submitted as part of its investigation. In addition, the actual Obamacare fraud happening in the system is costing taxpayers billions of dollars and much of it happens when applicants use the Social Security numbers of dead people.

Finally, they laugh as California Gov. Gavin Newsom attempts to fix his state’s budget disaster by taxing people who have already moved away. Jim turns to a classic song to underscore how absurd the idea is, and he hopes someone sues the state if lawmakers actually pass the plan.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the three martini lunch.

0:04.9

Grab a stool next to Greg Corumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review.

0:10.6

Three martini's coming up.

0:12.9

Hey, so glad you're with us for the Thursday edition of the three martini lunch.

0:17.4

So much going on today.

0:18.6

We're certainly going to be talking about how Gavin Newsom is so far

0:22.5

behind when it comes to budget deficits in California that he's actually now thinking about

0:28.1

trying to tax people who already left the state because it's so difficult there financially.

0:32.7

Good luck with that. We'll also be taking a look at fraud, shock, shock, when it comes to Obamacare subsidies, as that issue varies its head again on Capitol Hill and we'll probably get a vote relatively soon.

0:44.5

And we'll take a closer look at President Trump's move yesterday, which I think is a good thing, to roll back President Biden's Cafe standards.

0:52.6

Smart move on a number of fronts. But first, Jim,

0:56.0

let's dive right into the first one, and that is President Trump yesterday. This is in the Oval Office,

1:01.0

surrounded by people from the auto industry, lawmakers, as we'll hear in just a second,

1:06.3

talking about rolling back cafe standards, fuel economy standards that the Biden administration had

1:12.3

imposed on the auto industry. We usually see this from Democratic administrations, but the left is

1:18.2

getting tougher and tougher and tougher. Here's President Trump making that announcement as he

1:22.6

reads the order.

1:24.2

We're officially terminating Joe Biden's ridiculously burdensome, horrible actually,

1:29.1

cafe standards that imposed expensive restrictions and all sorts of problems, gave all sorts

1:36.4

of problems to automakers.

1:38.3

And we're not only talking about here, we're talking about outside of our country, because

1:42.6

nobody could do it.

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