Discussion on Fraud Impact and Government Response

Fraud is not about the numbers. Fraud hurts real

people in physical ways like Delilah Coleman, and we have

lots of examples about how fraud does this.

An example that we saw before is that doctors were performing

skin graft operations on elderly Americans in

hospices and nursing homes that didn't need it because then they

could get

reimbursements to the tunes of hundreds of millions of dollars

from HHS. We've ended that. But those were physically

maiming real American citizens so that people could wait--

make a quick buck,

and that's what's been going on here.

These schools are passing off these CDLs to people

who haven't earned them, putting forty-ton weapons into the

hands of people who are illegal immigrants who can't speak

English, and then they

hurt real Americans, real American citizens, the most

vulnerable among us that the government is supposed to be protecting.

That is why this fraud fight is important. It isn't about the money.

Real Americans are hurt, physically hurt every day

because fraudsters are trying to make a quick buck.

And that is why it is so important that the government under President Trump

and

the Vice President are focused on stopping it.

Now, we've heard a lot also today about how

states are

allowing these licenses to be distributed, and then they are inflicting these

people on the rest of us because you have the right to travel in this country, and

a license that is given by one state doesn't stay in that one state,

and they cause

injuries and deaths across the rest of the country.

This is a problem across the entire fraud war.

States who distribute cash assistance without regard to any of the

rules, billions of dollars every year, states who are handing out

CDLs to people who haven't learned it or haven't earned it.

President Trump is the first president to come in and say, yes.

In our federal system, the states have an important role to play,

but if

they're gonna mess it up, we are not gonna let them hurt the rest of

us by not playing by the rules, and the federal government will step in

and it

will fix the problem. And President Trump is the one

that stepped up,

saw this was a problem, a problem exacerbated by orders of

magnitude in

the previous administration, and is working to stop it,

and has been appointing

people to his cabinet who take this seriously.

And that is why we have the successes that we've had today, and that

is why we've

had all the successes on the anti-fraud front for the last year.