Speaking during a powerful press conference from the White House’s Oval Office in which he signed an executive order creating an anti-fraud task force to be headed by Vice President JD Vance, President Donald Trump sounded off on the fraud issue and the Somali migrants who are so engaged in it in Minnesota.
Yet further, and even more explosively, White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller, the architect of the Trump Administration’s anti-immigration policy, revealed that the discovered fraud has been so massive that merely cutting out the fraud would be enough to balance the American budget.
Beginning his comments on that jaw-dropping matter, Stephen Miller noted that this would be the first big effort in our history to crack down on fraud and pursue the fraudsters in an attempt to not just punish the fraudsters who stole so much taxpayer money but also recover the stolen funds, clawing them back.
He said, on that point, “Under President Trump’s leadership, and then, of course, with [Vice President JD Vance] and the head of the FTC, Andrew Ferguson, we are going to see the first ever effort in American history to reclaim the, ultimately, trillions of dollars that were stolen from taxpayers.”
Continuing, the Deputy Chief of Staff argued that the massive amount of theft of taxpayer dollars is so large that the Trump Administration believes that merely stopping it will be enough to balance the budget. He said, “I believe, I know, President Trump believes that when this theft is exposed, we will see that if all of it were stopped, it will be enough to balance the budget.”
Concluding that point, Stephen Miller argued that the theft is the primary cause of the national debt, saying, “The extraction of wealth from American taxpayers to people who don’t belong here is the primary cause of the national debt, and this is the first ever effort to shut that down. Thank you, Mr. First Ever.”
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President Trump, for his part, said during the meeting, “This is a very big thing that we’re doing. It’s about fraud, having to do with all the fraud that’s taking place in our country. And we have two people that are extremely brilliant and just very talented, and they’re going to be put in charge.”
Further, commenting on the matter in his executive order, the Trump Administration said, “Federal childcare funding to Minnesota were stolen by an organized ring of Somali immigrants and others who used the stolen money to purchase cars, property, and luxury travel, and sent the funds overseas. The Federal Government is investigating allegations that some of the United States taxpayer dollars subject to fraud in Minnesota were even funneled to one of Africa’s most heinous terror groups. All of this was ignored or undetected by State officials. There is also strong reason to believe that similar problems exist in other States, including California, Illinois, New York, Maine, and Colorado. In fact, Minnesota and 20 other States filed a lawsuit to block the Federal Government from even conducting a basic review to determine whether their enrollees are in fact eligible for taxpayer-funded benefits under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Such extensive, undetected fraud could only exist in a system that ignores it.”
It continued, “Fraud and mismanagement in these programs constitutes theft of the hard-earned tax dollars from Americans paying into these programs, and of the benefits owed to Americans who need them. The failure to ensure sufficient Federal oversight to prevent fraud, waste, and abuse has allowed irresponsible State politicians to increase Federal spending in their own States, which has contributed to inflation for health care services, housing, utilities, and groceries.”
It added, “Making matters worse, the previous administration adopted policies that weakened the Federal Government’s oversight of State administration and distribution of Federal funds under these programs, including by reducing commonsense verification measures, expanding access without adequate controls, tolerating unacceptable error rates, creating conditions in which fraud was institutionally tolerated and therefore flourished, and enabling individuals with substantial means to improperly access benefits.”
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