Rand Paul
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No, $700 million leaving Minnesota.
I was like, what's going on?
Yeah, the $700 million leaving, I think, is voluntarily checked off on those forms by Somalis.
So I think that's part of the fraud as well.
But I think that if we audit the system, we're going to find organized gangs of Russians and Chinese doing the same thing.
We know that during COVID, there were gangs of Russian hackers and Chinese hackers stealing stuff.
There were Americans stealing stuff.
But we have to have a tie to our...
Our problem is everybody's so generous and everybody wants to help people and you're a grumpy old terrible scrooge if you don't want to give refugees more money.
But ultimately you have to give them less money or you won't get to this.
So let's say we gave them $5 billion last year.
If you give them $6 billion, do you think we're going to do a better job at rooting out the fraud or a worse job?
If you give them more money, they'll steal more money.
You have to give them less so everybody's looking harder at the money and you do it.
It's the same with the Pentagon.
If you give the Pentagon $500 billion more, do you think they're going to be better with our money or worse?