Andrew Ferguson is the vice chairman of the task force to eliminate fraud, and he joins us tonight. Thank you for joining us, Andrew. Americans, as you know, are the most generous people on Earth, and they give to charities, and then they allow their tax dollars to be spent to help people, and then the government does this with it. Yeah, it's outrageous, and I could not have put it better than Vice President Vance. This is not that complicated. You've got to do two things if you want to protect American taxpayers. You have to make sure that money doesn't go out the door to the wrong people for the wrong purpose, and when it does, throw them in jail, and that is what the government has been doing this week. I was with Vice President Vance in Kansas City where he announced some big charges, and then in LA this week, look, the LA problem is huge. This has been going on for years. Under the Democrats here in Los Angeles and the Biden administration, they turned on the spigot, money flooded into LA, and homelessness got worse, and our superstar HUD secretary, Scott Turner, turned off the spigot. We cut off hundreds of millions of dollars that were otherwise going out to the door to the wantonly, hopelessly corrupt LA Homelessness Authority, and now we're putting these guys in jail. That's how you stop the fraud, and the vice president's right, this is not hard, but it took President Trump to make this happen. And we saw this with COVID as well, where there are simply no safeguards set up, but I do think that it is more than just sort of a blind eye. You have these operations that are set up that become kind of a cottage industry of their own, and it's all taxpayer money, and of course, they get it by bullying you, talking about how virtuous they are, and they need this money, and then they do the most evil thing possible, take money that was supposed to go to a homeless person or a drug addict and go spend it on herms or Tahiti. I couldn't agree more. Let me give another example of our California work this week. On Tuesday, we announced the arrest of 10 people in San Diego that were running ghost daycares. These were people from Iraq, Somalia, Sudan, Afghanistan. They came to this country, and instead of working, trying to improve their lives and improve this country, they took advantage of the generosity of American citizens, took their money, opened up fake daycares, took tens of millions of dollars, and out the door it went. Foreigners coming to this country and stealing from American citizens, President Trump is saying no more. He's shutting this down, and these people are going to jail, thanks to the Department of Justice. How much of this is getting exposed because the president has closed the border and put his foot down at the behest of American voters who are sick and tired of having open borders? How much of this is being exposed because of that? I have no doubt that part of the reason we are succeeding this fraud fight is because the president has cut off access to people from outside the United States who want to come here and rob American citizens blind. It isn't just foreigners and immigrants that do this by any stretch of the imagination, but there's no doubt that it was a huge incentive to come to this country and to try to steal from the federal piggy bank and steal from American citizens, and President Trump, shutting down the border, has eliminated that incentive, and that is protecting American citizens, and it is part of this fraud fight. But we have become known around the world as an easy mark, and it's our responsibility to maintain our own borders. Andrew, thank you so much. We were an easy mark before President Trump. Yeah, indeed. Thank you, Andrew.
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Andrew Ferguson is the vice chairman of the task force to eliminate fraud, and he joins us tonight. Thank you for joining us, Andrew. Americans, as you know, are the most generous people on Earth, and they give to charities, and then they allow their tax dollars to be spent to help people, and then the government does this with it. Yeah, it's outrageous, and I could not have put it better than Vice President Vance. This is not that complicated. You've got to do two things if you want to protect American taxpayers. You have to make sure that money doesn't go out the door to the wrong people for the wrong purpose, and when it does, throw them in jail, and that is what the government has been doing this week. I was with Vice President Vance in Kansas City where he announced some big charges, and then in LA this week, look, the LA problem is huge. This has been going on for years. Under the Democrats here in Los Angeles and the Biden administration, they turned on the spigot, money flooded into LA, and homelessness got worse, and our superstar HUD secretary, Scott Turner, turned off the spigot. We cut off hundreds of millions of dollars that were otherwise going out to the door to the wantonly, hopelessly corrupt LA Homelessness Authority, and now we're putting these guys in jail. That's how you stop the fraud, and the vice president's right, this is not hard, but it took President Trump to make this happen. And we saw this with COVID as well, where there are simply no safeguards set up, but I do think that it is more than just sort of a blind eye. You have these operations that are set up that become kind of a cottage industry of their own, and it's all taxpayer money, and of course, they get it by bullying you, talking about how virtuous they are, and they need this money, and then they do the most evil thing possible, take money that was supposed to go to a homeless person or a drug addict and go spend it on herms or Tahiti. I couldn't agree more. Let me give another example of our California work this week. On Tuesday, we announced the arrest of 10 people in San Diego that were running ghost daycares. These were people from Iraq, Somalia, Sudan, Afghanistan. They came to this country, and instead of working, trying to improve their lives and improve this country, they took advantage of the generosity of American citizens, took their money, opened up fake daycares, took tens of millions of dollars, and out the door it went. Foreigners coming to this country and stealing from American citizens, President Trump is saying no more. He's shutting this down, and these people are going to jail, thanks to the Department of Justice. How much of this is getting exposed because the president has closed the border and put his foot down at the behest of American voters who are sick and tired of having open borders? How much of this is being exposed because of that? I have no doubt that part of the reason we are succeeding this fraud fight is because the president has cut off access to people from outside the United States who want to come here and rob American citizens blind. It isn't just foreigners and immigrants that do this by any stretch of the imagination, but there's no doubt that it was a huge incentive to come to this country and to try to steal from the federal piggy bank and steal from American citizens, and President Trump, shutting down the border, has eliminated that incentive, and that is protecting American citizens, and it is part of this fraud fight. But we have become known around the world as an easy mark, and it's our responsibility to maintain our own borders. Andrew, thank you so much. We were an easy mark before President Trump. Yeah, indeed. Thank you, Andrew.
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