During an interview with Laura Ingraham of FOX News this week, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent explained that the administration is moving to ban migrants who are on government assistance from wiring money out of America into other countries.
Ingraham pointed out that there are examples of American tax dollars being used to support terrorist organizations overseas and Bessent concurred, agreeing that this is unacceptable.
It is amazing that it has taken this long to address this issue, but better late than never.
Breitbart News has more details:
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is banning migrants who are on government assistance from sending any U.S. dollars outside the country.
The secretary is making his move as part of a crackdown on federal social benefits abuses in Minnesota, which includes audits by the Internal Revenue Service on some banks under suspicion of money laundering.
Bessent has been concerned that money sent back to Somalia by the Somali community in Minnesota has ended up in the hands of the Muslim terror group al-Shabaab. Bessent has now suggested these funds — called remittances — should come under closer scrutiny.
“If you are wiring the money out of the country, one of two things must be true: you’re either getting too much money and your benefits must be cut, or you’re part of this conspiracy. Where did that money come from? We’re gonna find out,” Bessent said during an interview on Fox News.
“From now on, anyone who wires money out from one of these money service businesses has to check a box saying whether they are on public assistance,” he said.
“And if you are on public assistance, we are going to start pushing that you cannot wire money out of the country,” he added.
Watch the video below:
🚨 JUST IN: Sec. Scott Bessent is now moving to BAN anyone that receives government assistance from wiring money out of the country after Somali fraudsters were caught in Minnesota
“If you are wiring out of the country, you’re either getting TOO MUCH or you’re part of this… pic.twitter.com/CyaEtluTtj
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America’s sense of charity has been abused for years.
It’s time for that to end.
Mike LaChance has been covering higher education and politics for Legal Insurrection since 2012. Since 2008 he has contributed work to the Gateway Pundit, Daily Caller, Breitbart, the Center for Security Policy, the Washington Free Beacon, and Ricochet. He has also written for American Lookout, Townhall, and Twitchy.
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