John Bickley

She's alleged to have a lot of connections, obviously, with the Somali community, but specifically with some of the fraudsters.

Do you see any, again, accountability for her?

Is there more that the American public should know about her?

And you brought up racism and xenophobia, and those claims are leveled at people who bring up communities like this that are sort of disproportionately involved in illegal activity.

But the opposite form of racism appears to be what was actually happening here, as you described it.

They had sort of protected status.

Is that correct?

What about new federal guidelines or legislation to monitor relief programs like this?

Do you support that?

Do we need more in place to better protect taxpayers from abuse like this?

Well, if we do see people held accountable, as you're asking for here, hopefully that's a major deterrent going forward for actions like this.

Last question.

Secretary Scott Besant recently announced a new crackdown on financial transactions linked to fraud and illegal immigration.

Do you think this will be effective?

Let's hope we do see some action on this because we don't want to see billions more wasted on fraud.

Congressman Emmer, thank you so much for joining us.

That was House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, and this has been a special edition of Morning Wire.

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