DHS goes door-to-door in Minnesota over massive fraud claims

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00:44If you're a young parent struggling to afford childcare in the United States of America,

00:49there are programs that we have to make it easier for your kids to get in daycare,

00:53for your kids to get in preschool.

00:55Those programs should go to American citizens, not be defrauded by Somali immigrants and others.

01:00Make it hard for you to get the access to the resources you need.

01:04But number two, making it easier for people who shouldn't even be in this country to fleece

01:08the United States and our taxpayers to begin with.

01:11We have actually activated a major interagency task force to make it possible to get to the heart of this fraud.

01:19We have Department of Agriculture resources that are focused on SNAP fraud,

01:23so that people who need food benefits can get them, but illegal aliens and other fraudsters don't.

01:28We have over 1,500 subpoenas that the Department of Justice has issued to get to the heart of the fraud ring.

01:35We've done almost 100 indictments, mostly Somali immigrants, but also a few others.

01:40And of course, we're looking in with broad investigatory authority to a number of the instances of wrongdoing that we've seen in Minneapolis.

01:48But we also want to expand this.

01:50We know that the fraud isn't just happening in Minneapolis.

01:53It's also happening in states like Ohio.

01:55It's happening in states like California.

01:57And so what we're doing in order to help coordinate this remarkable interagency effort from the Trump administration,

02:03but also to make sure that we prosecute the bad guys and do it as swiftly and efficiently as possible,

02:10is we are creating a new assistant attorney general position who will have nationwide jurisdiction over the issue of fraud.

02:18Now, of course, that person's efforts will start and focus primarily in Minnesota,

02:23but it is going to be a nationwide effort because unfortunately,

02:26the American people have been defrauded in a very nationwide way.

02:30I want to thank a couple of people for the cooperation, in particular Pam Bondi, our attorney general.

02:35First of all, for getting a lot of resources to Minneapolis to start to investigate and prosecute this fraud,

02:40really at an industrial scale.

02:42We've never seen fraud like this in the history of our country.

02:45Pam has been doing a great job to get the resources there to uncover it.

02:49But importantly, creating a job like this often takes months, sometimes even longer.

02:54When we realized that we needed this associate attorney general position,

02:58Pam got this person up and running in about a week.

03:01We're going to make the nomination hopefully in the next few days.

03:03We'll obviously let you guys know who that is when we do it.

03:06I've talked to Senate Majority Leader John Thune,

03:08who has promised me swift confirmation for this official.

03:11But this is the person who is going to make sure that we stop defrauding the American people.

03:17Here's one final thing I'll say about this.

03:19I've heard a lot of people say that we need a special counsel to investigate fraud in the United States of America.

03:24I actually agree.

03:25And that's what this position does.

03:27It has all the benefits, all the resources, all the authority of a special counsel, but with two crucial differences.

03:34Number one, it will be run out of the White House under the supervision of me and the President of the United States.

03:39And number two, it's actually constitutionally legitimate.

03:42As you guys may know, the special counsel statute has some major constitutional questions.

03:47When we get the bad guys, we want to make sure we get them permanently and they don't have some legal technicality.

03:52We want to make sure we don't have any technical technicalities.

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