Speaking from the White House, Trump Administration Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller commented on the great work that Vice President JD Vance is doing in cracking down on fraud as the leader of the administration’s anti-fraud task force, explaining as he did so the massive amount of fraud that has been discovered.
Beginning, he said, noting the lighting-fast speed of the formation of this task force and its deployment, he said, “This is the fastest in history that a government task force has traveled from creation to action. Your typical lead time is going to be a year of meetings before anything happens, and that’s if you’re lucky.”
Continuing, he commented on the task force’s quick work in cracking down on fraud in a massive way, saying, “And within weeks of this task force being established, we’ve seen the largest ever slate of indictments, recovered funds, search warrants, raids, seizures, investigations, and new legal actions to stop, disrupt, and prevent fraud.”
He then added, describing the massive extent of the fraud and how bad it is, saying, “What we’ve learned, which is not surprising to those of us who spent some time in this area, is that fraud is every bit as bad as President Trump said it was, and even worse. So, in other words, everything we found either confirms our worst fears or exceeds them. That’s the bad news.”
He further explained, describing how the team that has been cobbled together to deal with the fraud problem is superb, “The good news is that the best team in government, under the leadership of Vice President Vance, has been assembled to deal with it, and of course, one of those, those men you’ll hear from a second, is sitting to my right here, the Associate Attorney General for Fraud Enforcement, Colin McDonald.”
Noting how the welfare system was taken advantage of by those who have no sense of personal honor, Miller then said, “But before I yield the floor, I do want to just touch on one of the points that Andrew hit on in his remarks. All of the systems in our country, whether you’re talking about voting, whether you’re talking about entitlements, whether you’re talking about welfare benefits, were set up based on the honor system. They’re set up based on the idea that you could trust the average person through their own morality to abide by the rules and comply with the law, and so the way most welfare works in most states and most places is we take your word for it.”
Giving an example, Miller explained, “If you thought a piece of paper and you say your kids are hungry, you are going to get food stamps. We don’t check as a country if you even have kids, the fact as basic as that, we don’t even check if you even have children, you will just start getting the checks, and so what’s happened to our country is we became a society, as we’ve seen with the Somali refugee problem in Minnesota, where you have a large number of people that are not following the honor system, they’re not playing by the rules, they’re not abiding by our laws, and the amount that has been fleeced from us is in the hundreds of billions of dollars.”
"*" indicates required fields
Noting that budget could be balanced if the fraud problem were treated seriously, he then said, “I believe, based on what I’ve seen and what I’ve heard, is that we could balance the federal budget if the only dollars that went out of the Treasury went to individuals who were properly, lawfully, correctly eligible to receive them, and that ultimately is going to be what we have to do as a country.”
Concluding, Miller argued, “In the meantime, because of the Vice President’s leadership, you are seeing the most muscular, robust, aggressive, dedicated, determined, and speedy effort to shut down criminal fraud that has not only ever occurred in the history of this country, but in any developed nation. So, thank you.”
Watch him here:
Featured image credit: screengrab from the embedded video