We should have at least one simple rule when it comes to legal immigration: If you are here to sponge off the American taxpayer, get the hell out. 
Don&#8217;t plan on working? Out. Bring an entire family, most of whom will draw on the taxpayer dime? Nope. 
This is what the Trump administration is arguing. 
And New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the rest of the Democrats are screaming bloody murder.
The question is: Why? Why are Democrats so desperate to import people who are dependent on the American taxpayer? Why aren&#8217;t Democrats concerned with the people who actually pay the taxes in the United States? 
When my great-great-grandparents came here from Lithuania and Russia more than 100 years ago, they had pretty much nothing. And they were entitled to pretty much nothing because that&#8217;s the way that things work. 
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This was true of virtually all immigrants to the United States for roughly the first 160 years of our existence. They came here knowing that they probably weren&#8217;t going to get anything. There were some mutual aid societies, perhaps some friends and family who were already here, who might be able to help them out. 
But the government was not going to be the primary means of support for these people. And they knew it. They were coming here because they were coming for the opportunity. 
First, all of that meant high levels of assimilation. If you couldn&#8217;t get paid without a job, and if you couldn&#8217;t get a job without assimilating, you actually had to assimilate. 
My great-great-grandparents came here speaking Yiddish, and within a generation everyone was speaking English. This was very common among immigrants from the places that my ancestors came from. They came here, and they said to their kids, “You are not allowed to speak Yiddish in the home. You actually have to speak English so that you can learn English and then assimilate.”
Second, it meant much greater involvement with social institutions. If you were a Christian immigrant and needed help, you went to your local religious institution. That was good, because when you go to your local religious institution for help — as opposed to going to the government — that comes with strings.
If you&#8217;re part of a community and you&#8217;re drawing from the communal pool in terms of support, you owe something to the community. You’re not simply getting a faceless check in the mail.
Third, the situation drew a certain type of immigrant, a type of person who came here for the opportunity, who wanted to work, and who was upwardly mobile. That was the basic bargain. 
It&#8217;s the difference between a store putting out a “help wanted” sign and a store putting out a free donut sign; the stores draw two very different types of people. “Help wanted” brings people looking for a job; “free donuts” brings the people who want free donuts. 
If you change the incentive structure, you are going to draw different people. 
For nearly 150 years — longer than any modern federal welfare or entitlement program has existed — U.S. immigration law has included some form of public charge exclusion. In the Immigration Act of 1889, Congress excluded paupers and persons likely to become a public charge.
 Congress recognized that, given the fact that the United States is very wealthy, a lot of people would come here and be better off as paupers than they would be staying in their native countries. That remains very true today.
The current form of the public charge rule is found in the Immigration and Nationality Act. It provides that any alien who, in the opinion of the consular officer at the time of application for a visa or in the opinion of the attorney general at the time of application for admission or adjustment of status, is likely at any time to become a public charge, is inadmissible.
The problem is pretty much no one is getting deported on this basis. No one. The current standard is based on a 1999 interim field guidance issued during the Clinton administration. That standard is not particularly hard to meet.
In 2017, roughly 1,000 immigrant visa petitions out of 1 million were rejected based on the public charge rule, which is insane. The idea that you have over 1 million people who are coming here, many of whom will become public charges, and only 1,000 of whom get rejected on those grounds, is nuts. 
What happened? Why wasn&#8217;t the public charge rule really implemented? Look at the history of how immigration worked in the United States. In the beginning of the 20th century, there was vast migration to the United States, but virtually no federal welfare programs. Then, in the 1930s, you had the New Deal programs, which were accessible to legal residents, but immigrant households were less likely to receive welfare than native-born households.
It progressed from there.
One of the reasons that you have seen a vast spate of right-wing upsurges in Europe is not just because of a lack of assimilation or no-go zones across the continent, from Sweden to France to Germany. It is also because of welfare dependency.
Welfare dependency and crime have a heavy overlap because if you are coming to a country to take advantage of its welfare benefits and not integrate into the system, the same mentality that says that the government owes you something, that says society owes you something, makes it easy to justify stealing from people.
So why do Democrats favor this? 
Because Democrats love importing people who become dependent on the government. They want them to become citizens, and they want them to vote. That is the goal, because that fosters the kind of government they seek. 
Zohran Mamdani would love to import millions more people into Manhattan, increasing demand without increasing supply, to have those people be dependent on public welfare benefits and then vote for him.
If you can vote with other people&#8217;s money, you will keep doing so until the end of time. 
Thus, the Trump administration announced that it was going to start strictly applying the public charge rule that insists that if you come here and you&#8217;re dependent on welfare benefits, out you go. 
The Democrats have gotten very upset about this. Mamdani joined other mayors across the country in a joint lawsuit to challenge the new public charge rule on Monday.
Entitlement programs are a massive problem. They drive our national debt. They bankrupt cities. They bankrupt states. They bankrupt the country. The very idea that these programs are titled “entitlements” as opposed to what they actually are, which is the dole, is a way of changing the mentality people have toward drawing from the state.
In the movie &#8220;Cinderella Man,&#8221; the main character, James J. Braddock, has to go on welfare in the 1930s. In one scene, after he becomes rich again by boxing, he brings money back to the welfare office and drops it off. 
No one in America would do that now because of the entire mentality shift about taking taxpayer dollars.
Remember, taxpayer dollars, even ones that are created out of thin air by racking up the debt, are someone else&#8217;s dollars. They do not belong to you. But because we keep saying “entitlement” over and over and over, the basic idea is that you&#8217;re entitled to draw on the taxpayers. You&#8217;re entitled to it. 
I don&#8217;t care who you are in the United States; if you are healthy but you are taking advantage of the entitlement programs to avoid working, you are doing something morally wrong.
It&#8217;s even worse when we&#8217;re importing vast numbers of people to do this. We should not be standing up entire programs, opening our doors wide and saying, “You are entitled to this,” but that is what Mamdani wants. 
I have a question. Why is Mamdani more worried about people coming here who want to become citizens and are already on the dole than the people paying for them? 
Because Zohran Mamdani is an “Eat the rich guy.” There&#8217;s nothing he wants more than that.
Of course, we get the usual routine: “People will die,” which is the stupidest form of politics. Unless you can show an actual correlation between the policy change that is being made and the malicious death of people, that is the dumbest argument possible. 
Every public policy argument has risks and benefits. All of them. Going all the way to “people could die” is malicious. He is saying that you maliciously want those people to die. 
There is no data that says if people don&#8217;t have Medicaid because they are immigrants, there will be mass death.
This is part and parcel of a broader worldview for people like Zohran Mamdani. It is not just about importing people who are dependent on the federal government and on the state government and local government. 
It is also about importing people who fundamentally hate our country and what it stands for. 
It is about destroying America.

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The Trump administration says states accepting federal welfare funds must require every state agency, not only welfare offices, to report illegal immigrants benefiting from welfare programs or risk losing program funding, The Daily Wire has learned.
The Department of Justice&#8217;s Office of Legal Counsel reached that conclusion in a new opinion obtained by The Daily Wire on Wednesday. States that refuse to share the information with federal officials will risk losing federal dollars, according to the Justice Department.
The opinion applies to all states participating in the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) programs. All 50 states, Washington, D.C., and several American territories participate in the welfare programs.
&#8220;Congress wrote this requirement plainly,&#8221; T. Elliot Gaiser, Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel, said in a statement. &#8220;When a state chooses to participate in TANF, it accepts the obligation to report illegal aliens in the United States. Tax dollars intended to help vulnerable Americans should not perversely encourage illegal entry into the United States, but rather should reinforce our laws and our borders.&#8221;
With its latest opinion, the Justice Department withdrew a 1998 opinion that held only state agencies administering the welfare benefits were required to provide information on illegal immigrants to federal immigration authorities.
&#8220;Our clarification does not impose new obligations on states,&#8221; Joshua Craddock, Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel and author of the opinion, said.
&#8220;It simply restores the original meaning of the statute Congress enacted and ensures that DHS receives the information it is legally entitled to. States that accept TANF funding must abide by federal law, and failure to comply may lead to serious consequences, including loss of program funding,&#8221; Craddock said.
The latest action comes as the Trump administration continues its ongoing crackdown on illegal immigrants exploiting the welfare system.
Last week, the Trump administration <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-admin-pauses-all-immigrant-visa-appointments?author=Jennie+Taer&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=6&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Trump+Admin+Pauses+All+Immigrant+Visa+Appointments">paused</a> all visa appointments worldwide to train consular staff to better evaluate whether applicants are likely to become dependent on the American welfare system, the Washington Post reported.
“A more prosperous America means ensuring that visa applicants are not likely to become a public charge, as defined under U.S. law and regulation, and not likely to become dependent on U.S. public benefits reserved for qualified Americans in need,” the State Department said in a recent statement.
The goal of the training is to ensure consular officers &#8220;are fully equipped to evaluate every visa applicant comprehensively and consistently,&#8221; the department said. The pause does not appear to affect visas for tourists, foreign workers, or students, according to The Wall Street Journal.

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EXCLUSIVE: Trump Admin Threatens States Refusing To Report Illegal Immigrants Receiving Welfare

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This piece is part of MI x DW, a collaboration that brings Daily Wire readers exclusive commentary and research from the Manhattan Institute’s world-class team of scholars.
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This summer marks 30 years since President Bill Clinton signed the landmark 1996 welfare reform into law. His successors in today’s Democratic Party will commemorate the event by repudiating everything that welfare reform symbolized. The party increasingly belongs to hardline socialists who promise universal benefits, unconditional cash, and higher taxes on “the rich” to pay for it all.
The leftward drift is measurable. New Manhattan Institute <a href="https://manhattan.institute/article/american-attitudes-on-welfare-waste-crime-and-the-political-environment">polling</a> finds that 49% of left-leaning voters identify more closely with democratic socialists than traditional liberals. That includes 67% of those under age 35.
But momentum inside the Democratic coalition should not be mistaken for momentum with the American public. Manhattan Institute’s polling shows that Clintonian politics — championing work, public order, and mainstream values — remains a winning formula for the Left, the Right, or whoever decides to seize the opportunity.
Clinton, one of just two Democrats elected president between 1968 and 2008, won by demonstrating that a Democrat could say no to his political movement’s most radical faction. His public rebuke of one extremist even gave rise to the term “<a href="https://politicaldictionary.com/words/sister-souljah-moment">Sister Souljah moment</a>” to describe precisely that kind of political break. His promise to “end welfare as we know it,” another break, culminated in the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act — signed just months before he became the first Democrat since Franklin D. Roosevelt to win a second full presidential term.
Thirty years later, Democrats may have moved on from Clinton’s formula, but the American public largely hasn’t. Nearly three-quarters of voters (74%) support requiring welfare recipients to show that they are seeking work, including majorities of Democrats and more than six in ten somewhat left-leaning voters. Voters prefer assistance targeted to those genuinely unable to provide for themselves over universal benefits by 67% to 24%, and by 65% to 21% they say that the safety net should guarantee a decent minimum standard of living rather than reduce income inequality. Fully 80%, spanning every demographic and political subgroup, would rather provide benefits in the form of food, housing, and health care than as unrestricted cash transfers.
The socialist alternative has no mass constituency. Voters oppose universal basic income by 50% to 32%. Just 10% would raise taxes to fund more generous benefits. And when told that Nordic-style universal welfare systems require higher taxes on middle- and working-class households, only 13% would accept that trade-off for families like their own.
That doesn’t mean that Americans have turned against the safety net. A plurality believes welfare helps people get back on their feet rather than fostering dependency, while 48% say government has an obligation to guarantee every American a basic standard of living.
Still, there are signs that the Republican agenda on welfare is more popular than left-wing critics assert. Voters back the Republican-championed 2025 expansion of SNAP work requirements by 57% to 32%. Seventy-three percent say that waste, fraud, and abuse — a major focus of GOP officeholders in recent months — should be a congressional priority, including 57% of Democrats.
Taken together, the findings describe a coherent philosophy of welfare. Americans favor meaningful support for those who need it, conditioned on work where possible, coupled with an evenhanded approach to combatting fraud and abuse. That is, in fact, the bargain Clinton brokered a generation ago.
But it’s not obvious which party owns that deal today. Asked whom they trust to manage welfare programs responsibly, voters split, with 39% saying Democrats and 36% saying Republicans. Forty-six percent of independents trust neither party.
The DSA rejects the public consensus on welfare. Republicans have tapped into it, but not reliably. The right model for the GOP looks like Argentine President Javier Milei’s campaign against bureaucratic bloat. When enforcement appears motivated by grievance, Republicans will squander an issue that should be theirs. That leaves a wide opening for Democrats willing to run on welfare pragmatism.
Crime and public order offer Democrats a similar opportunity. Voters support the death penalty for egregious crimes by 58% to 28%, with independents favoring it by more than two to one. Roughly four in five reject abolishing police departments, prisons, or U.S. borders, including majorities of even very left-leaning voters.
Clinton understood this terrain as well, pairing welfare reform with an unapologetic commitment to public order. Many Democrats understand that they need to ditch the “defund” movement, and leaning into law and order could help them win back the moderate center as Clinton did.
Some Democrats will argue that the party is winning even without moving to the middle, pointing to its lead on the generic congressional ballot and President Trump’s 44% approval rating. But that advantage depends primarily on opposition to Trump rather than enthusiasm for the Democratic agenda, with one in 10 voters still undecided and one-quarter of independents on the fence. Anti-Trumpism may help with short-term gains, but it has not delivered a consistent governing majority.
Democrats have spent much of the past decade letting their most radical fringe define the party, while allowing Republicans to define everyone else. The 30th anniversary of welfare reform offers an excellent opportunity to change course. Moderate Democrats need to acquire Clinton’s confidence and flair for disappointing the loudest voices inside the party in order to appeal to the quieter majority outside it. Our polling suggests that this majority still exists on welfare, work, and crime — if Democrats are willing to trust it.
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This is republished with permission from the Manhattan Institute’s City Journal. The original can be found <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/article/welfare-work-manhattan-institute-poll-bill-clinton">here</a>.
<a href="https://manhattan.institute/person/jesse-arm">Jesse Arm</a> is the vice president of external affairs at the Manhattan Institute. <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/person/sean-speer">Sean Speer</a> is a Technical Writer at the Manhattan Institute.

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The Treasury Department said Tuesday that it prevented nearly $100 million in welfare payments to dead people, thanks to new fraud prevention measures implemented by the Trump administration. 
Since March 2025, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the department had identified 4,900 payments worth $99 million that were slated to go to dead people. The payments never went out because they were flagged for review after the department implemented new payment verification policies. 
“Treasury has delivered on a key promise of President Trump’s mandate to stop improper payments and fraud before money leaves the Treasury, and strengthen the integrity of the federal payment system,” Bessent <a href="https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0569">said</a> in a statement. “Together with Vice President Vance’s Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, this new safeguard addresses a longstanding vulnerability and helps ensure every dollar the federal government spends reaches its intended recipient.”
The payments were identified as the department screened 885 million payments worth about $2.77 trillion.
Bessent said the screening took place because the department has increased access to the Social Security Administration’s death master file, making it easier to identify deceased payees. He also pointed to the adoption of the Do Not Pay program, which <a href="https://fiscal.treasury.gov/payment-integrity/do-not-pay-dnp/about">requires</a> identity verification, eligibility confirmation, and bank account information before any payment is doled out. 
“Treasury will continue efforts to modernize the federal payment system, strengthen safeguards against fraud and improper payments, and protect taxpayer dollars,” Bessent said. 
In his first few months back in office, President Donald Trump signed an <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/protecting-americas-bank-account-against-fraud-waste-and-abuse/">executive order</a> aimed at empowering the Treasury Department to identify fraud. Trump’s executive order noted that the Government Accountability Office estimates that the government loses between $233 and $521 billion every year in fraud. 
“This order promotes financial integrity by enabling the Department of the Treasury to more easily conduct improper payment and fraud prevention screening prior to disbursing funds on behalf of agencies,” Trump directed in March 2025. “This order increases transparency and accountability by requiring agencies to provide the Department of the Treasury with the information needed to track transactions through the General Fund in greater detail.”
The Trump administration has brought a strong emphasis on combating fraud with the White House creating a new task force under Vice President JD Vance focused on tackling the issue. The task force opened up an investigation in Ohio after The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trumps-massive-anti-fraud-strike-force-lands-in-ohio?author=Luke+Rosiak&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Trump’s+Massive+Anti-Fraud+Strike+Force+Lands+In+Ohio">reported</a> on spurious entities being paid millions for so-called home health care services.

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The more wives, the bigger the government check. At least, that’s according to a little-known welfare rule tied to some polygamous households that is now paying out even more money this year.
But there’s a catch. Well, a few.
One, it’s not in America.
And two: The policy is in the United Kingdom, where certain overseas polygamous marriages can still be recognized under limited circumstances tied to older parts of the benefits system.
The marriages themselves cannot legally take place inside Britain. Instead, the rule applies to some people who were already legally married in countries where polygamy is allowed before later moving to the UK through separate immigration pathways.
Even though the policy has existed for years, newly updated payment rates are suddenly bringing fresh attention to it online.
Under updated government figures, qualifying households can now receive roughly $166 more per week for each additional spouse living in the home. The increase is part of Britain’s annual benefits uprating process tied to wage growth and inflation.
Government officials also maintain that the number of people affected is believed to be relatively small.
The controversy centers around how Britain handles certain foreign marriages already considered legally valid overseas. Parliamentary guidance published in recent years explains that while Britain bans polygamous marriages domestically, some foreign arrangements can still be acknowledged for specific administrative and legal purposes.
That recognition can extend into portions of the welfare system.
One detail fueling online backlash is that there does not appear to be a specific numerical limit on how many additional spouses could theoretically be counted under the older framework, though overall household benefit caps still apply.
The debate has already drawn political scrutiny.
Conservative lawmakers previously questioned why any part of the benefits system still accounts for polygamous households at all, especially as immigration and welfare spending remain major political flashpoints across Europe.
British officials continue emphasizing that polygamy itself remains illegal inside the country.
Still, the resurfacing of the little-known rule is quickly turning into another viral debate over immigration loopholes, government spending, and whether outdated welfare policies are quietly surviving long after most people assume they disappeared.

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Dearest readers, if you&#8217;ve ever been called a racist, bigot, or fascist pig simply for pointing out what&#8217;s in front of you, have no fear. You&#8217;re not the villain. You just have working eyes.
Take Luke Rosiak, Daily Wire&#8216;s investigative reporter, who this week <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/medicaid-millionaires-how-the-feds-pay-immigrants-billions-to-hang-out-with-their-families%20?contentProgram=Medicaid%20Millionaires%3A%20How%20The%20Feds%20Pay%20Immigrants%20Billions%20To%20Hang%20Out%20With%20Their%20Families&amp;contentType=Post&amp;elementPosition=2&amp;location=Home%20Tab&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Home%20Featured%20Carousel">exposed</a> what looks like a billion-dollar Medicaid scam in Columbus, Ohio. While doing his job — following the money, documenting the waste, naming the names — an individual at one of the companies under his microscope called him a &#8220;racist.&#8221; That&#8217;s the play, isn&#8217;t it? Do the illegal thing, claim victim status. Point out the illegal thing, get called a fascist, racist, bigot — oh my!
Over the last several months, through the work of DOGE and investigative journalists like Rosiak and Christopher F. Rufo, Americans have been jolted awake to the staggering misuse of their tax dollars. Our hard-earned money is being funneled through welfare programs like Medicaid, Medicare, and SNAP, and in some cases, traced all the way to terrorist organizations abroad, often finessed by the very people this country so generously welcomed in.
In early 2025, DOGE, the Department of Government Efficiency, led by Elon Musk, was charged with exposing and cutting federal waste, fraud, and abuse. With faith, trust, and Big Balls, $215 billion in fraud was found and cut, and the citizen cavalry didn’t stop there. In November 2025, Rufo and Ryan Thorpe broke early ground on Minnesota, detailing what they <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/article/minnesota-welfare-fraud-somalia-al-shabaab">reported</a> as a $9 billion fraud scheme embedded in the state&#8217;s welfare and childcare programs, particularly Somali-run operations. Federal prosecutors alleged some of those funds traveled beyond Minnesota all the way to al-Shabaab, a U.S.-designated terrorist organization responsible for attacks that have killed Americans.
Hey, Happy Thanksgiving! You’re being robbed, and the cash is being packed into suitcases and shipped to the third world! Blessings.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/medicaid-millionaires-how-the-feds-pay-immigrants-billions-to-hang-out-with-their-families">READ MORE: DW Investigation Reveals One Of The Biggest Government Waste Scandals Hiding In Plain Sight</a>
In December of that same year, Nick Shirley’s 42-minute investigation into Somali-run childcare centers in Minnesota dropped on social media. The investigation uncovered an estimated $110 million in suspected fraud.
Merry Christmas, you filthy animals.
In March of 2026, Shirley turned his lens on California, uncovering another $170 million in fraud via fake hospice centers. Rufo followed with Gavin Newsom&#8217;s Empire of Fraud, estimating the state had hemorrhaged $180 billion to welfare scams involving dead people, prisoners, and criminal networks.
Californication? More like Califraudication.
Which brings us to this week. Rosiak. Columbus, Ohio. Another billion dollars. At the center of it all — the Somali community, once again.
Cue the racist smears.
Why is it that when you follow the highway-robbery road, it so often leads back to this diaspora?
Democrats&#8217; bleeding hearts, progressives&#8217; polite niceties, and the clans they imported created the perfect conditions for this tribal and criminal storm.
Minnesota is home to the largest Somali population in the Western world outside of Somalia itself. Over 150,000 Somalis arrived in America beginning in the 1990s; that number now totals roughly 260,000, including U.S.-born children, the vast majority of whom are concentrated in Minnesota. The state didn&#8217;t just become a resettlement hub; it became a target-rich environment, and the welfare state was the target.
In Somalia, clan-based loyalty isn&#8217;t cultural flavor; it&#8217;s the operating system. As Somali-American author Ayaan Hirsi Ali has written, growing up there meant &#8220;loyalty to kin was absolute. Loyalty to the nation was theoretical at best.&#8221; The state is not a civic institution; it&#8217;s a resource. Something to be manipulated, defrauded, and stripped for parts, all in service of the clan. It is about survival. It is about control. The nation is irrelevant; your tribe is everything. Everyone outside it is a threat, not a neighbor. This mindset doesn&#8217;t just enable fraud; it sanctifies it — and it sustains cycles of trauma, radicalism, and revenge that make genuine integration nearly impossible.
For many in this community, the American government has not been a ladder to assimilation. It has been a vending machine. Not a tool for integration, a tool for exploitation.
The numbers make this impossible to dispute, which is why the Left throws the word “racist” around. Minnesota&#8217;s Medicaid Housing Stabilization Services program saw annual payouts explode by 4,515%. The Feeding Our Future child nutrition program received $3.4 million in 2019; by 2021, that number had ballooned to $200 million. In 2023 alone, Medicaid paid out $399 million in autism-related claims tied to Somali children, with a staggering 1-in-16 four-year-olds diagnosed. The money funded luxury cars and lavish homes, not the vulnerable children it claimed to serve.
When the indictments poured in, the majority of perpetrators were members of Minnesota&#8217;s Somali community: Moktar Hassan Aden, Mustafa Dayib Ali, Khalid Ahmed Dayib, and Abdifitah Mohamud Mohamed. In Columbus, Ohio? Same story.
READ MORE: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/inside-ohios-home-health-empire-7-buildings-288-medicaid-companies-250-million">Inside Ohio’s Home Health Empire: 7 Buildings, 288 Medicaid Companies, $250 Million</a>
As Rosiak put it: &#8220;They all share combinations of just a few names, like Ahmed Mohamed and Mohamed Ahmed. Documents reviewed by The Daily Wire show individuals will spell their own name multiple different ways within a single document. And many of them list their birthday as January 1, because their birthdates are unknown.&#8221; 

Laughable. And when the auditors finally came looking, much of the money was already bilked, moved through hawala, an informal Islamic money transfer system that operates almost entirely off the books and leaves virtually no paper trail. 
Our hard-earned cash, flying in a suitcase over the Indian Ocean, on its way to Mogadishu.
This isn&#8217;t a uniquely American problem. Somali clusters in Stockholm, London, and Toronto have followed the same playbook, testing the limits of liberal democracies that mistook empathy for surrender. The result, in each case: entrenched poverty, failing schools, and gang violence hardening into generational dysfunction.
The diagnosis has been made. The only question is whether our ruling class has the spine to follow through on treatment.
Anyone entering this nation must assimilate and integrate into the civic and social fabric of the country taking them in. That expectation is not bigotry. It is the basic contract of immigration. It is especially non-negotiable when people are arriving from places where rape is routine, women are killed with impunity, and justice is rarely served.
We don&#8217;t do that here. And our tax dollars sure as hell shouldn&#8217;t be subsidizing it over there.
The prescription is straightforward: financial restrictions tied to verified citizenship status, aggressive taxation on remittance transfers, prosecutorial teeth in immigration-related fraud cases, and the backbone to see it all through.
Reporters aren&#8217;t racist for exposing rot. You aren&#8217;t racist for talking about it. As for the leftists who let this fester for decades while calling everyone else a bigot? They have a lot of explaining to do.

Feeding our Future, January 2022, by Shari L. Gross. Star Tribune

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On Monday, Daily Wire reported on the massive alleged fraud plaguing Ohio&#8217;s Medicaid program. Our investigative team has uncovered shocking facts surrounding alleged fraud and what appear to be hundreds of shell companies bilking taxpayers out of perhaps billions of dollars. And Vice President JD Vance has already vowed to track it all down, putting out a tweet pledging that he would look into what was going on, writing, “I&#8217;m directing the task force to look into it and take immediate action to prosecute any fraudsters involved and stop all further payments as appropriate.”
So we are already getting action here at Daily Wire. This is why Daily Wire exists — not just to entertain you, but to change the world in better ways. Luke Rosiak, who is our senior investigative reporter, has presented the second part of his large-scale investigative series, reporting on the extent of Medicaid fraud in Ohio.
He points out that there are seven buildings along East Dublin Granville Road in Columbus, Ohio, that are filled with hundreds of offices, which are owned by a company called Cordoba Real Estate. Almost every tenant in the building bills Medicaid as a home health care business that provides low-skilled, usually non-medical, care to elderly or disabled people.
Basically, it seems very much like what Nick Shirley was uncovering in Minnesota. Essentially, we have gigantic buildings that are filled with “home health care providers,” but completely empty of people. Daily Wire has video of Luke Rosiak walking through the halls in an empty office building in Ohio, where presumably millions of dollars are flooding through.
This, of course, is a scam. According to Luke&#8217;s reporting, the Cordova-owned buildings in Columbus have 288 businesses registered with Medicaid. Together, they charge taxpayers more than a quarter of $1 billion between 2018 and 2024. In a city where there are only about 6,200 people who are 75 or older on Medicaid. Apparently, at one address, there are 80 companies that collectively billed at least $73 million to Medicaid and received $23 million from the state of Ohio.
Again, shocking levels of what appear to be alleged fraud. And again, Luke is talking to one of the employees at Cordova Road, who admits the government basically pays people to take care of their own family in the Cordova Office building at 1425 East Dublin Granville Road.
Daily Wire finally located a business suite with somebody in it, GC Home Health Care, LLC. When asked how they recruit employees, the response was, “Employees and patients come as a package.”
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ben-shapiro-ep-2419?elementPosition=2&amp;row=5&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+Episodes&amp;rowType=Horizontal+Show+Episodes+Carousel"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-981859" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/ben-banner.avif" alt="" width="1024" height="171" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/ben-banner.avif 1024w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/ben-banner-300x50.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/ben-banner-768x128.jpg 768w" sizes=" (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></a>
Seventy percent of the employees are just being paid to spend time with their own family members. The “patient” has someone in their family who has the qualifications to be an aide, so they just come together. They acquire approval from a doctor vouching for the elder’s need for personal services.
The family member of that elderly person isn&#8217;t set up to build Medicaid, so a company stands in the middle. “I mean, we&#8217;re just taking a small cut because, you know, they pay us and then we pay them for the hour,” the employee says. The number of hours depends on a doctor&#8217;s recommendation, but it&#8217;s often an hour a day. The employee continues, “Why — do you expect them to take time off work just to take care of [a family member]?”
So, there has to be some sort of benefit. Rosiak asks him why people wouldn&#8217;t simply help their aging parents with basic tasks out of human decency. The answer: “The government can pay you to do it. I mean, people see that as lucrative.” 
Unbelievable stuff. Are you, as a taxpayer, willing to subsidize people to take care of their own aging parents?
It&#8217;s crazy. Rosiak reports that there is one home health care service called Omega, which charged taxpayers $11 million between December 2017 and October 2024. Omega was incorporated in 2011 by Mohamud Jama, a Democratic politician. Jama founded a newspaper called the Somali Post, and also a Somali coffeehouse, and has been affiliated with the Somali Education Resource Center, which received $6 million in federal aid in 2023, all on top of raising nine kids and working as an engineer.
When he ran for state Senate as a Democrat in 2024, that home health care business was not even mentioned in his profile. Great. 
We also have to, as taxpayers, subsidize people running for the state legislature as they clear millions of dollars in cash.

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How Was The Medicaid Millionaires Machine Built? DW Investigates The Blueprint For Billions

Ben Shapiro

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Fraud isn&#8217;t just happening in the blue cities where you might expect. It&#8217;s happening right under the noses of Republican governors. In Ohio, for example, one address was listed for 94 companies — no windows, totally empty — and billed to you, the American taxpayer, for $66 million.
Over the last several years, shell companies have been fake-billing, providing fake services, and covering their tracks until this very instant. Daily Wire has now uncovered, via Luke Rosiak and our investigative team, Medicaid millionaires. In the blockbuster piece, Rosiak points <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/medicaid-millionaires-how-the-feds-pay-immigrants-billions-to-hang-out-with-their-families?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Luke+Rosiak&amp;category=Investigation&amp;elementPosition=4&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=The+Medicaid+Money+Trail+Leads+Somewhere+You+Won%E2%80%99t+Like+%E2%80%94+And+The+Daily+Wire+Has+Receipts">out</a>:
<blockquote>Under the guise of health care, Ohio pays people to go to Medicaid beneficiaries’ homes to perform “homemaking” and “chores” like cooking and cleaning. The people performing these “personal services” tasks don’t even have to be health care workers.</blockquote>
In 2024, Ohio spent $1 billion on home health care. They literally pay people Medicaid money to go to other people&#8217;s houses to perform homemaking and chores. And, as Luke writes, the new welfare queens aren&#8217;t the recipients whose low incomes qualify them for poverty programs. They&#8217;re the companies getting rich off of them.
His overall impression is that 99% of the facilities visited had the hallmarks of waste, fraud, or abuse. We are talking about alleged criminality at a breathtaking scale.
An additional characteristic of these fraudulent facilities is that all the windows are covered. Why would you cover all the windows? Because there&#8217;s nothing there. According to Luke, what&#8217;s inside is 94 different companies signed up to bill Medicaid, each with a tiny office often marked with a sheet of paper proclaiming some generic company name ending in Home Health, LLC, and sometimes another piece of paper claiming the employees had just stepped out for a break.
This building, this address, has billed taxpayers over $66 million over the last several years. If you try to track down what exactly is happening at any one of these home health care companies, what you will find is an endless rabbit hole. You&#8217;ll find years of unpaid taxes and debts, sometimes criminal records, and an astonishing number of LLCs created in other industries, as if the millions they are making from Medicaid is just a side gig.<a href="http://www.dailywire.com/episode/ben-shapiro-ep-2418?elementPosition=1&amp;row=0&amp;rowHeadline=Recent+Episodes&amp;rowType=Horizontal+Show+Episodes+Carousel"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-981859 size-full" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/ben-banner.avif" alt="" width="1024" height="171" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/ben-banner.avif 1024w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/ben-banner-300x50.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/ben-banner-768x128.jpg 768w" sizes=" (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></a>
The government is not, and cannot be, monitoring the people to whom they write million-dollar checks. They all share a combination of just a few names, like Ahmad Mohammed and Mohamed Ahmed. And Columbus, Ohio, has the second-largest Somali population outside Minnesota. They spell their own name multiple different ways within a single document. Many of them have their birthdays listed as January 1 because their birthdates are unknown.
Pretty much all of them, according to Rosiak’s reporting, are registered voters.
The business model is apparently simple. A 40-year-old Somali gets paid for spending time with, and maybe cooking for, his own 65-year-old mom. The middleman is one of these thousands of home health firms that have an “NPI” number necessary to bill Medicaid, and then the 40-year-old becomes an “employee” of that company.
But the only patient is Mom. There&#8217;s no way to verify whether he&#8217;s providing services unless his mom is willing to rat him out. Maybe he even gives her a portion of the pay as a kickback for allowing her Social Security number to be used. Apparently, all of these home health care companies are owned by foreigners. 
When Rosiak asked what home health care companies did, he was threatened. “Journalists? Who cares? Do you guys pay my bills? I’m going to tell everybody you guys are racist.”
This is the way the magic works: Defraud our Medicaid systems. Defraud federal taxpayer dollars. And then, when somebody comes knocking on the door, they claim that they are a racist.
This poverty program differs from others, such as food stamps, because it doesn&#8217;t have a monetary cap. Its extent is not decided by politicians, but by any doctor willing to sign a form saying you could use some help around the home. And one doctor willing to sign and turn out enough of these forms can bankrupt a state.
How do we get this information? For decades, Medicaid billing data was a black box. It&#8217;s one of the biggest government programs in human history. The public could not see a dime of it. 
That changed in February, when the DOJ quietly released data that many people missed. In one case, a landlord who owned buildings with 300 different Medicaid companies billed the federal government $250 million. 
For Democrats, this is a feature, not a bug. You&#8217;d imagine that there would be Democrats out there who are upset with this kind of fraud. After all, if you&#8217;re an advocate for a government program, you should want every dollar of that taxpayer money to go to someone who deserves it.
But that&#8217;s not what&#8217;s happening. Democrats are irritated by the fact that people are uncovering this stuff. The good news for Ohio is its leadership: Republican Governor Mike DeWine is the governor, and Vivek Ramaswamy is very likely to be the next governor. And President Donald Trump is on top of this, and Vice President JD Vance is heading up the waste, fraud, and abuse policing.
That is what Americans need. We need accountability. We need prosecutions. We need doors kicked down. We need investigations.
Republican governors and federal officials need to fix this, and this is a unique time to do it. The Trump administration has made policing waste, fraud, and abuse possible. This was not going to happen under Democrats.

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Medicaid Millions Flowed Through A Dead Office — And DW Uncovered The Paper Trail

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Democrat witness Brendan Ballou claimed during a Wednesday hearing that the influx of Somali immigrants made his home state of Minnesota &#8220;stronger&#8221; – but Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX) brought data that said the exact opposite.
During the hearing — which was scheduled as part of an investigation into widespread fraud in Minnesota that has been linked to the Somali immigrant community — Gill posed a direct question to the former federal prosecutor, asking whether Somalis made the state weaker or stronger.
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This Democrat witness claims large-scale Somali immigration makes Minnesota stronger.
The numbers tell a different story. <a href="https://t.co/ufxlVgwqLa">pic.twitter.com/ufxlVgwqLa</a>
— Congressman Brandon Gill (@RepBrandonGill) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepBrandonGill/status/2008934421403934728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 7, 2026</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Does large-scale Somali immigration make Minnesota stronger or weaker?&#8221; Gill asked.
&#8220;Certainly stronger,&#8221; Ballou said.
&#8220;Certainly stronger,&#8221; Gill repeated. &#8220;Do you know what percentage of Somali-headed households in Minnesota are on food stamps?&#8221;
Ballou did not.
&#8220;Fifty-four percent,&#8221; Gill replied. &#8220;Do you know what that number is for native Minnesota-headed households?&#8221;
Ballou protested, &#8220;Well, to be clear, a majority of the —&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s seven percent,&#8221; Gill continued. &#8220;There&#8217;s a big difference between fifty-four percent and seven percent, is there not?&#8221;
&#8220;Excuse me, sir, could I answer the question?&#8221; Ballou asked.
&#8220;Let me move on, we&#8217;ve got a lot of questions here,&#8221; Gill said, asking, &#8220;What percentage of Somali-headed households are on Medicaid?&#8221;
Ballou did not know.
&#8220;It&#8217;s seventy-three percent,&#8221; Gill said. &#8220;Do you know what that number is for Minnesota native households?&#8221;
Ballou once again objected to the terminology, but did not answer the question.
&#8220;The number is eighteen percent,&#8221; Gill replied. &#8220;That&#8217;s quite an astounding difference, I think we would agree.&#8221;
Ballou continued to protest about Gill&#8217;s use of the term &#8220;native Minnesotan,&#8221; but made no move to supply answers to Gill&#8217;s questions.
&#8220;Let me ask you one more, and then we can go into that,&#8221; Gill said. &#8220;What percentage of Somali-headed households are on welfare in general?&#8221;
&#8220;I don&#8217;t know,&#8221; Ballou conceded.
&#8220;It&#8217;s eighty-one percent. What about — let me just ask you, after ten years of being in the United States, what percentage of Somali immigrant households are on — continue to be on welfare?&#8221; Gill pressed again, and again Ballou did not know the answer until Gill provided it: &#8220;The number is seventy-eight percent. So even after ten years, seventy-eight percent of Somali immigrant households continue to be on welfare. Do you know what that number is for native Minnesota-headed households? Non-Somali immigrant-headed households.&#8221;
Ballou protested again, claiming, &#8220;You&#8217;re using the phrase &#8216;native Minnesotans,&#8217; the majority of Somali Minnesotans are as Minnesotan as any of us, they were born in the United States —&#8221;
&#8220;Nevertheless, the welfare usage is astoundingly different,&#8221; Gill declared.

House Oversight Committee Holds Hearing On Minnesota Fraud Investigation

Dem Witness Says Somali Immigrants Make Minnesota ‘Stronger.’ GOP Rep’s Receipts Say Otherwise.

Dem Witness Says Somali Immigrants Make Minnesota 'Stronger.' GOP Rep's Receipts Say Otherwise

Food Stamps

medicaid

minnesota

Since President Trump returned to the Oval Office, he has delivered some of the most momentous reforms in the history of the SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program), also known as the food stamp program.
Rife with fraud and exploitation, the program is costing taxpayers billions of dollars every year and enriching criminals.
Our research, however, has uncovered a new outrage: More than 5,000 liquor stores and smoke shops are now considered “authorized retailers” to accept food stamps — half of which were approved by the Biden-Autopen administration.
Fortunately, President Trump has begun a major crackdown on abuses. As it continues to improve and renovate the food stamp program, it should ensure that only stores that help achieve the program’s mission are approved as retailers.
Nevertheless, most food stamp trafficking happens not at grocery stores, but <a href="https://thefga.org/research/cracking-down-on-retailer-food-stamp-trafficking/">at convenience stores</a>. In fact, trafficking takes place at more than one out of five convenience stores that accept food stamps. And nearly <a href="https://thefga.org/research/cracking-down-on-retailer-food-stamp-trafficking/">three out of every four</a> stores that accept food stamps are convenience stores.
The Agriculture Department is supposed to vet and approve stores before allowing them to receive food stamps. But under the Biden administration, the process reportedly took as little as 15 minutes. This is obviously not enough scrutiny for stores receiving our tax dollars.
Thankfully, Trump’s Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins approved the first-ever waivers to allow states to defund soda and junk food in their food stamp programs, and states like <a href="https://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/waivers/foodrestriction/nebraska">Nebraska</a> and <a href="https://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/waivers/foodrestriction/colorado">Colorado</a> have already filed waivers to do so.
To be eligible to receive food stamps, stores are supposed to sell more than a dozen different <a href="https://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/fr-092525">staple</a> food items, or have food sales as a majority of their revenue. The stores must “effectuate the purpose of the program,” which is to improve nutrition for lower-income Americans. Yet <a href="https://thefga.org/research/cracking-down-on-retailer-food-stamp-trafficking/">more than 4,000 liquor stores</a> and 1,000 tobacco shops are currently considered USDA-approved vendors — which is suspicious, to put it mildly. The idea that a liquor store sells healthy and nutritious food — or that a tobacco store receives a majority of its revenue from food sales — is doubtful. But even if that were the case, liquor stores and tobacco stores simply do not “effectuate the purpose” of the food stamp program.
The food stamp program was created in <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/88th-congress/house-bill/10222/text">1964</a>, specifically to “provide for improved levels of nutrition among low-income households.” But, over the last six decades, politicians and bureaucrats have often lost sight of its mission and opened it up to enormous levels of waste, fraud, and abuse.
As a result, over the last 25 years, food stamp spending has exploded, growing more than sixfold to <a href="https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/food-nutrition-assistance/supplemental-nutrition-assistance-program-snap/key-statistics-and-research">more than $100 billion per year</a>. More spending has meant more opportunities for fraud, and it is estimated that last year alone, <a href="https://thefga.org/research/cracking-down-on-retailer-food-stamp-trafficking/">more than $2 billion</a> in food stamp benefits were trafficked — that is, sold for cash at a discount or used to buy food that was then sold for cash. Food stamp trafficking has grown tenfold over the last 25 years.
President Trump signed <a href="https://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/obbb-implementation">historic legislation</a> to make states pay when they misuse tax dollars. These steps alone will save taxpayers billions of dollars — and thankfully, the Trump administration is not resting on its laurels and is continuing its work to improve the program by addressing food stamp trafficking.
Food stamp trafficking exploded under the Biden administration, as Democrats turned a blind eye to rampant fraud. Half of the liquor stores and smoke shops that are authorized food stamp retailers were approved under President Biden. Most of these stores are in <a href="https://thefga.org/research/cracking-down-on-retailer-food-stamp-trafficking/">California</a>, but states like Michigan and Illinois also have hundreds of liquor stores and smoke shops that are authorized to accept food stamps.
In fact, liquor stores or smoke shops are eligible to accept food stamps in every single state but North Dakota. By 2022, <a href="https://thefga.org/research/cracking-down-on-retailer-food-stamp-trafficking/">nearly half of all stores</a> receiving food stamps were convenience stores, with more than four times as many convenience stores receiving food stamps — and 15 times as much taxpayer money spent there — as there were two decades earlier.
USDA Secretary Rollins recently issued a new rule <a href="https://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/fr-092525" target="_blank" rel="noopener">that more</a> than doubled the number of required staple food items for stores to qualify to accept food stamps. The new rule also closes loopholes that counted some snack foods as staples. Secretary Rollins is also simplifying the staple food categories, making enforcement easier and ultimately more effective. These rules are just the first step, and there are indications from USDA that a larger <a href="https://www.fns.usda.gov/programs/fr-092225">crackdown</a> may be coming.
This is excellent news, but USDA should go all the way: Prohibit liquor stores, smoke shops, and other retailers that do not “improve levels of nutrition” from accepting food stamp benefits altogether. Allowing our tax dollars to be used at tobacco shops and liquor stores is not just harmful to hardworking taxpayers, but it also harms the people that food stamps are supposed to help. Secretary Rollins should keep up the good work and make the food stamp program fulfill its original purpose of improving nutrition for those who need it.
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Michael Greibrok is a Senior Research Fellow at the Foundation for Government Accountability (FGA).
Kristi Stahr is a Senior Data Analyst at the FGA.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

Federal Funding For Food Assistance Programs To Run Out Starting Nov. 1, Due To Government Shutdown

Food Stamps And Fraud: The SNAP Loophole Nobody Talks About

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Convenience Industry

President Trump

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The Somali-tied welfare fraud scheme in Minnesota is likely far worse than the American people think, involving &#8220;complicit&#8221; state government officials and totaling far more stolen money than original early estimates stated, according to Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller.
Billions of taxpayer dollars have been stolen from the state, and much of the welfare fraud has been tied to Somali migrants, as first reported by City Journal. And, alarmingly, some of the stolen money was allegedly funneled to Al-Shabaab terrorists. 
&#8220;We believe that the Somali fraud operation in Minnesota is the single greatest theft of taxpayer dollars, through welfare fraud, in American history,&#8221; Miller said on Fox News. &#8220;We believe we have only scratched the very top of the surface of how deep this goes.&#8221;
Miller noted that some of the reported welfare scams include people &#8220;pretending that children have autism, who are not in fact autistic,&#8221; and &#8220;pretending to enroll people in food programs, when, in fact, nobody was ever enrolled.&#8221;
These fraudsters, Miller said, engaged in &#8220;massive fraud, lying, and theft, and grift on a scale we&#8217;ve never seen before in American history.&#8221;
&#8220;The total bill, the total tab for this, is going to be far beyond the numbers being reported,&#8221; he said, suggesting we are dealing with billions of stolen tax dollars tied directly to welfare schemes.
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&#8220;Based on the records we already have &#8212; this is a significant undercount, by the way &#8212; 75% of the Somali population in Minnesota is on welfare, and that&#8217;s likely a significant undercount of just how much of a financial burden the Somali refugee population is imposing on this country,&#8221; Miller added.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/StephenM?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@StephenM</a>: &#8220;We believe that the Somali fraud operation in Minnesota is the single greatest theft of taxpayer dollars, through welfare fraud, in American history&#8230; and we believe that what we are going to uncover is going to shock the American people.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/h4jfFit0jD">pic.twitter.com/h4jfFit0jD</a>
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1997135207707615556?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 6, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The Trump administration advisor also claimed that Democrat leaders in the state were &#8220;fully complicit&#8221; in the fraud.
&#8220;We believe the state government is fully complicit in this scheme and we believe that what we are going to uncover is going to shock the American people,&#8221; he asserted.
Controversial Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) could be tied up in the scandal.
&#8220;Omar’s close ties to the $1 billion welfare scam in her Minnesota congressional district are being uncovered,&#8221; the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/12/04/us-news/what-did-ilhan-omar-know-about-the-1b-welfare-fraud-case-in-her-minnesota-district/">reported</a> this past week. &#8220;Omar held parties at one of the key restaurants named in the fraud, knew one of its now-convicted owners, and one of her own staffers has also been convicted — both for stealing millions. Omar even introduced the bill that led to $250 million in fraud. Yet she claims to have been completely unaware of it.&#8221;
There are also serious questions about the oversight, or lack thereof, from Democrat Gov. Tim Walz. 
Currently, the Treasury Department is investigating allegations that “under the feckless mismanagement of the Biden Administration and Governor Tim Walz, hardworking Minnesotans’ tax dollars may have been diverted to the terrorist organization Al-Shabaab,&#8221; Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced this week.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ilhan-omar-says-trump-supporters-might-attack-somalis-brushes-off-fraud-scandal?author=Amanda+Prestigiacomo&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Ilhan+Omar+Says+Trump+Supporters+Might+Attack+Somalis%2C+Brushes+Off+Fraud+Scandal">Ilhan Omar Says Trump Supporters Might Attack Somalis, Brushes Off Fraud Scandal</a>

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The Somali Welfare Fraud Scandal Is Even Worse Than You Think

Trump Admin Says Somali Fraud Scandal Is Even Worse Than You Think 

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President Trump is now activating Immigration and Customs Enforcement to go after Somali illegal immigrants in Minneapolis. This follows the reports about large-scale Somali welfare fraud, including the attempt by many members of the Somali community to defraud the federal and state governments during the pandemic. A lot of that money ended up going in remittances back to Somalia.
On Tuesday, President Trump’s overall take was that the United States needs to radically limit immigration from places like Somalia.
That is correct, because not all countries are going to be equally useful as sources of migrants to the United States. The people who come from many of these countries do not have any sort of cultural habits that mesh well with the United States.
The president <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/politics/trump-declares-i-dont-want-somalis-in-the-us-that-is-not-politically-correct-i-dont-care/">stated</a> that he doesn&#8217;t want Somalis in the United States, saying:
<blockquote>I hear they ripped off — Somalians — ripped off that state for billions of dollars, billions every year, billions of dollars, and they contribute nothing. The welfare is like 88%. They contribute nothing. I don&#8217;t want them in our country. I&#8217;ll be honest with you. Somebody will say, &#8216;that&#8217;s not politically correct,&#8217; I don&#8217;t care. I don&#8217;t want them in our country. Their country&#8217;s no good for a reason.</blockquote>
When the president says, as a general point, that he does not want Somalis in the country,  that they&#8217;re coming from a culture that does not mesh well with the United States, is he wrong about that? As a general rule, is that wrong?
On Tuesday, the administration unveiled a new regulation that would prevent immigration applications from citizens of 19 countries already covered by President Trump&#8217;s travel bans. Right now, there&#8217;s a travel ban that says if you&#8217;re coming from Iran, Venezuela, or Haiti, you&#8217;re not going to get a travel visa. Now he&#8217;s extending that into a pause on all immigration applications from those 19 countries.
All of this raises the question as to whether the United States ought to block immigration from third-world countries. According to the Migration Policy Institute, from 2015 to 2019, Somalis, of all sub-Saharan African immigrants, had the lowest levels of educational attainment. Only 14% held a bachelor&#8217;s degree or higher. Of all immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa, Somali-headed households were the poorest immigrants who came into the United States, and had the lowest median income at $32,000. Somalis in the United States had a 37% poverty rate. Extremely poor, extremely uneducated. Somalis had the highest rates of being uninsured in terms of health insurance: 18%. Somalis had the highest naturalization rate of any of these groups.
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So they come here extremely poor, extremely uneducated, with a low income and wealth trajectory. And then they get naturalized at a super-high rate because they want to stay, which anyone would want. This is an amazing country. That, however, does not mean we have an obligation to take in everybody.
When they do earn money, a huge percentage of that money gets sent back to Somalia. And some of that money goes to terrorist groups like al-Shabaab.
This is what President Trump is railing against. You may not like his language. You may think that it&#8217;s colorful or purple or whatever, and that&#8217;s fine. Anyone can be critiqued for the language that they use.
But his general point, that the United States cannot afford to take in waves of extremely poor immigrants who do not cohere with the American system, that we cannot afford to bring in hundreds of thousands of people with actual allegiances to war-torn countries like Somalia, who then take a disproportionate share of our welfare dollars, is true.
So when you hear the argument that this is a country of immigrants, well, yes, it is certainly true that this was a country of settlers, and then it was also a country of immigrants. But the kinds of immigrants you take in help define your country, and the systems that they meet here help define your immigrants.
The reason so many people have left their home countries over the course of centuries to come to the United States is because the United States was a place that guaranteed opportunity, but it did not guarantee a gigantic welfare system that actively prevented assimilation.
We changed our own immigration system. We changed our own incentive structure. And then we were surprised when different people came.
The current argument being made is as though we are welcoming people from Eastern Europe or Italy or Ireland or Germany circa 1903, when there were no robust federal welfare systems in the United States. The income tax wasn&#8217;t even constitutional at that point. There were no robust welfare systems, even at the state level. There was no real attempt by the government to get involved in propping up people who were wildly poor, to the tune of not having to assimilate or get a job.
And so that drew a different kind of person. Yes, it drew people who were desperate, but the people who were desperate recognized that their path forward lay in embracing Anglo-American legal ideas, lay in embracing Biblical values , and embracing and assimilating to American rights and responsibilities, because that was the social safety net.
The social safety net was that you join a community, you come here, you join a church, your friends and your family help you out. But then it is your job to learn English. It is your job to go out and get a job. It is your job to put your kids in the local public school and make sure that they get educated the way Americans ought to be educated.
That is why the assimilated project in the United States was extremely successful up until the welfare era.
And then the welfare era began, and everything changed. And it doesn&#8217;t mean that we didn&#8217;t have extreme conflict over immigration prior to the welfare system. There was huge controversy over the levels of Chinese and Jewish immigration in the early part of the 20th century, and before that, huge levels of ire over Irish immigration in the 1840s, 1850s.
Immigration has always been a real hot point in American politics, because when new people come to a country, the question is, are they going to become part of the system or are they going to tear down the system from within?
The great guarantor that people were going to assimilate was the fact that they didn&#8217;t have a choice. The incentive structure drove them toward assimilation. It drove them toward participation in the American Dream.
And then came the welfare system and an incentive structure that said, “Come here and we give you free stuff; we demand nothing of you; you can do basically whatever you want in terms of employment; you can send all your money back home; you don&#8217;t have to actually try to get involved in the Anglo-American project.”
And we were surprised when we drew a different type of immigrant? That&#8217;s ridiculous.
It&#8217;s the same thing as saying, “I have a donut shop, and my donut shop is a prestige donut shop. You come in here, you can get the best of the best donuts. We go in the back every morning, and we handcraft our donuts. They&#8217;re amazing.”
The constituency drawn to that kind of donut shop is going to be of one particular sort of clientele. But then you decide that you&#8217;re going to change your policy, and you just hang a sign in the front window that says “free donuts.” Who do you think is going to show up? It&#8217;s going to be a very, very different constituency. Pretending otherwise is silly.
This is not the fault of the people attempting to come to the United States. This is the fault of our authorities. This is the fault of the elite in our society who claimed that you could change the entire incentive structure, taking people from cultures that have nothing in common with the United States, and somehow those two things could logically coexist within a similar project.
It&#8217;s ridiculous. And then, of course, if you point this out, you are bigoted or racist.
No, it&#8217;s not bigoted or racist to say that if people come from a place that does not have anything in common with the United States, and there is no actual incentivization toward assimilation, they&#8217;re not going to assimilate.

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