Fraud Crackdown Could End Up Balancing the Budget: Miller.
The White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud is uncovering welfare fraud on a scale so vast that eliminating it could balance the federal budget, according to Stephen Miller.
PULSE POINTS
❓ WHAT HAPPENED: White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller has said Vice President J.D. Vance’s anti-fraud task force is identifying so much fraud that it could eliminate the federal deficit.
📺 DETAIL: According to the White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, the scale of welfare fraud is so vast that eliminating it could balance the U.S. federal budget. In a press conference alongside Vice President Vance on Tuesday, Stephen Miller said: “The amount that has been fleeced from us is in the hundreds of billions of dollars. 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.” Making reference to Minnesota welfare fraud in particular, Miller said: “What’s happened to our country is we became a society, as you’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.” Notably, the Trump administration is launching audits of Medicaid Fraud Control Units nationwide.
🎯 IMPACT: The Department of Justice (DOJ) has established a National Fraud Enforcement Division, which has uncovered $6.3 billion in suspected fraudulent contracts. Meanwhile, the Small Business Administration identified 562,000 fraudulent loans amounting to roughly $22 billion. Furthermore, over 10,000 suspected fraudulent immigration student work programs were discovered, along with $60 million in student loan fraud. In December last year, research from the Center for Immigration Studies revealed that approximately 80 percent of Somali refugee-headed households in Minnesota are on at least one form of welfare, further underscoring the vast extent of waste attributable to just one small fraction of the U.S. population.
💬 KEY QUOTE: “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.” – Stephen Miller
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