Eric Schmidt

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Just left a confirmation hearing for the lawyer that's going to be in charge of prosecuting all this fraud that we've seen.

It's certainly Minnesota.

I think that's a tip of the iceberg.

Could be a trillion dollars a year of fraud that's happening in this country.

I just think of the guy that's working his tail off, swinging the hammer, driving the truck.

He deserves better than that.

So President Trump outlined a focus on that.

Vice President Vance is going to be in charge along with the federal prosecutors.

We need to prosecute and then also have some tools on the front end to make sure this stuff doesn't happen again.

I frankly think we ought to.

We need to deal, make sure that DHS, TSA, Coast Guard, FEMA, all those agencies are funded.

And so I'm hopeful there will be a breakthrough on that.

That's going to require some, you know, obviously cooperation from the Democrats, which we haven't seen a lot of so far.

But we want to get to the SAVE Act.

We also, as I mentioned, we've got a housing bill that we can pivot back and forth to if we get a deal to open up the government.

That's harder to do once you're in the throes of a talking filibuster.

The context of that, the process in which we consider it is still an open question, but one that we're having conversations about, but clearly not a unified position, at least among Republicans in the Senate.

I think that's obviously a very real possibility.