MN's Somali Fraud Is Just The Tip Of The Iceberg

This episode is brought to you by Adobe Firefly, the all-in-one creative studio with AI-powered image and video generation. Built for today's creative process, Firefly helps you generate, edit, and experiment fast. Because the asks aren't getting smaller. And the timelines? Ooh, yeah, still tight. With all the best creative AI models in one place, Firefly brings your ideas to life. Learn more at Adobe.com slash Firefly. Welcome to Sunday night. This is One Nation. I'm Brian Kilmeade. So glad you're watching. Coming up on the show tonight, you're going to love it. Betty Johnson, all over the fraud in California. He is leading the way, and he's heading there right after this interview. We're going to have James Blair with us. He's got the script for the Trump term, too, to hold on to the House, to hold on to the Senate. Will it work? We'll discuss it with him and Senator Tom Cotton on the ripple effects of the operation in Venezuela and what it could mean for our security and the security for everyone in Central. in South America. But first, the fastest, most impactful monologue in America. Jaw-dropping. Widespread taxpayer fraud has been exposed. If you thought what was happening in Minnesota was bad, just wait. You got new allegations emerging this week. Look at all the yellow there in states across the country. Allegations of fraud now in more than a dozen states and likely to grow. The Department of Health and Human Services freezing $10 billion in funds for federal child care and family assistance program in five of those states already. And citing concerns over fraud and wasted taxpayers. dollars, the Trump administration not taking any chances. The administration taking action, appointing a new attorney general, focuses specifically on fraud nationwide, and hopefully a quick confirmation from John Thune and company over in the Senate. There's a common theme here running through all of this. A significant portion of peers centered around the Somali community. All this is Minnesota's Somali fraud scandal hit a fever pitch with demand for Governor Gwaltz and that horrible mayor, Mayor Fry, to resign. Why he got reelected, I don't know. And a heated hearing on the hill as the House Oversight Committee digs into the massive scandal trying to get some answers in real time with people under oath. Not politics, facts. We want to find out where the... social services and Medicaid programs, where all that money went? Does large-scale Somali immigration make Minnesota stronger or weaker? Certainly stronger. Certainly stronger. Do you know what percentage of Somali-headed households in Minnesota are on food stamps? No. 54%. Do you know what that number is for native Minnesota-headed households? Well, to be clear, a majority of the... It's 7%. There's a big difference between 54% and 7% is they're not. Do you have any doubt that Governor Tim Walz knew about this fraud as it was occurring? He absolutely knew that it was occurring.

Now you know why Tim Walz is talking so much about ICE. Defendants' accusing of siphoning as much as $9 billion in taxpayer funds through bogus billing and bogus sham providers. 98 people charged so far, 85 of Somali descent. 64 already been convicted. Money meant for children, disabled adults. Instead, spent on luxury homes, on vacations, expensive cars, and jewelry. They all should be giving it back. And they should go to jail. But Minnesota may turn out to be just... the tip of the iceberg. One Homeland Security agent finishing their investigation there says they plan to head out to California. Gavin Newsom openly challenging the probe. Bring it on. Fraud in terms of child care. Hey, you think for a second anyone counting since fraud? So if he has some unique insight and information, I look forward to partnering with him. Can't stand fraud, can't stand waste and abuse. Really? He wants to be a partner. Isn't that interesting? A Republican-backed analysis of whistleblower tips claims to expose as much as $250 billion in taxpayer fraud. You've got a state auditor finding $70 billion lost. Listen to this. $24 billion spent on non-existent homeless programs, non-existent high-speed rail, never built, now canceled. $18 billion. Also, they lost... 2.5 billion to snap fraud. And more billions spent on rebuilding after the Palisades fires. Almost no homes are built. Minnesota. with more than $9 billion diverted from its intended purposes, and some of its alleged sent overseas may be just the beginning. By the way, some of that money could have went to terror organizations. The mother load, though, may be in California. And if that is true, much of the credit will belong to my next guest. Benny Johnson, host of the Benny Show. Benny, great to see you. When did you realize that California was worse than Minnesota? Yes, so California is the fraud capital of the world, and here's how you know. Let's go ahead and look at just one program in California that the state budget, which is enormous, is supposed to solve. The homelessness crisis. Now, you can travel to any city in California, and you will find tent cities, broken down RVs, people living on the street, people defecating on the street, people behaving in dangerous ways towards children. towards families and towards the taxpaying citizens of California. You shouldn't allow that in America. California knows that this is a problem. Gavin Newsom knows this is a problem, and they spent $24 billion on homelessness in California over the last few years. Brian, that's $160,000 per homeless person spent by the state of California. Now, where I'm from, in Iowa, $160,000 will buy you a home. You could just buy a home for every homeless person. This is what California has done. Now, what happened in the course of spending that enormous amount? Has homelessness gotten better or worse in California? In fact, homelessness, the rate of homelessness has grown by 30,000 people. It's skyrocketed. Travel any street, go anywhere, but I would advise you, Brian, to go ahead and look right here.

at the map of Gavin Newsom's city. This is San Francisco's public defecation map. This is what the one of America's once greatest and most beautiful cities, one of the most prosperous and richest cities has been turned into. This is the public defecation map of homeless people inside of downtown San Francisco. Nancy Pelosi's house is on that map. Gavin Newsom's office is on that map, and Gavin Newsom oversaw that city, so he knows damn well that this money is being wasted and wasted egregiously and criminally. And we put this full screen up so people can see. it and we went over it so you can take that in if you're watching it home but I want to move on I know you're getting to the bottom of this because it angers him and it angers his staff they are furious with you and you're going there to confront this

Yes, they're furious because it's indefensible what they've done in the Palisades as well. And the most important thing to do there is just like what was done by Nick Shirley in Minneapolis is simply go and turn on the camera. It's self-evident. Have there been any homes built? No. Gavin Newsom promised to rebuild the homes. Gavin Newsom promised that these people who lost 7,000 homes approximately in the Palisades had their lives destroyed, had their family memories, torched to ashes. Most people in America know somebody who's been affected by these fires that he would cut the red tape, that he would cut the penalties, cut the fees, and that they'd get to rebuilding. Has there been a single shovel overturned in the Palisades? And again, you can just go there and turn on the cameras. If you turn on the cameras and knock on a Somali daycare and ask, can I enroll my child, you'll be... met with screaming and someone calling the cops and a door slammed in your face. If you go to California and turn on the cameras and just film the streets of downtown LA or San Francisco or any city, you will see the egregious homeless problem. They spent $24 billion. No homes have been built and no homeless people have been saved. So, Benny, we know this too. On a policy, he was just insane. He was saying to everybody here illegally, you get free health care. He single-handedly destroyed the state health care system. He's backed off of that since. But yet people, he gave a state of the state address as if he was a returning war hero. Why don't people hold him accountable? He was a terrible mayor. In terms of results, he's been a terrible governor. How does he get a pass on this? He won't actually, no one even holds him accountable in the Pacific Palisade situation, yet no one's got permits. Yeah, that's completely correct. It's because, Brian, I believe that many of the elections in California are also fraudulent. There are so many loopholes in the system. But here's the big one. They don't allow voter ID. They're being sued right now by the Trump administration because they refuse to turn over their voter rolls. How many criminal aliens are voting? The tune of $31 billion went to criminal aliens in the... form of welfare or other services by California. And so how many of these people are actually electing the individuals like Gavin Newsom in a massive payout? It's going to be like the Somali fraud in Minneapolis when you actually look into it and investigate. And again, it is simply self-evident. Just like if you turned on a camera, cameras are, of course, Gavin Newsom's major enemy. When Gavin Newsom was locking down the entire state during COVID, he was at the French laundry dining with all of his friends. So, Benny, if he really wanted to get to the bottom of fraud. He should welcome Benny Johnson landing at LAX and grabbing his phone and his camera and exposing it for him because he doesn't like fraud, but he doesn't really mean a word in which he said. I hope you would come back and share with our audience what you find. Yes, that's promise. Benny Johnson, thanks so much, and we'll be checking at your podcast like most of America does. Thanks so much, Ben. Thank you, Brian. God bless you. Cheers to America's 250th birthday. Get 20% off your first purchase at Fox Newswineshop.com with code FM Radio 20. 20% discount excludes wine club offers and cannot be combined with any other promotion. Expires July 31st, 2026. Must be 21 order to order. Please drink responsibly. People of Maine are angry.

They are very upset that this fraud has been allowed to go on, and they are outraged. And to them, it is just as clear that it is to us that someone who has served on an organization that has committed that kind of fraud, that the main people deserve better sitting on the Appropriations Committee. The continued saga of taxpayers getting ripped off, now spreading to Maine. Our next guest is raising red flags on a potential similar pattern of fraud seen in Minnesota. But with Maine's Medicaid program, the focus, joining us as whistleblower, Christopher Bernardini. He's the former billing guru for Gateway. And Gateway is a Somali-run business that he was there trying to help out but found out things were not going wrong. Chris, thanks so much for coming forward. Tell me what Gateway is, what you did, and what went wrong. All right. Yeah, so Gateway is a Somalian-run service that provides in-home supports case management services. all kinds of things like that, home health services for not only migrants, but the community at large in Maine. They had offices in Portland, Augusta and Lewiston, so they were trying to spread out throughout the whole state of Maine. Now, this was, this agency didn't. operated exclusively for migrants, like I said. It started out that way. Their bread and butter was case management services where, you know, new Mainers, they helped new Mainers settle into the state that are coming asylum seekers, stuff like that. And so they would bring them on. They would get them home health services. And we hired, we also hired the migrant community to work with their, you know, the people in their community. So it was kind of like they would just bring them into the fold through case management. They'd get them counseling. The case management would help them, you know, set them up for get them main care, get them EBT, get them these home health services. If they had children, they could get Section 28, which provided, you know, autism services for children in their homes and communities. A community service program. It seemed that way. Right. So it turns out Gayway got $28.9 million in payments from $20. 2019 to 2024. And then they got $4.1 million last year. Where did that money go? Man, it could have gone anywhere, honestly. So my main job was I was doing all the billing. So it was my name. I was processing the actual claims that go from, you know, the staff in the field to the clients. I'm getting the time cards. I'm processing the time cards in the system. And the government knew about the potential for fraud in these home health programs because around 2020, they implemented the electronic visit verification system.

Now, that forced the staff that were providing these services to use an app on their phone to check in when they got to the client's homes. Right. Now, there was a piece of this that allowed the supervisors on the back end. There was a website where we could track the staff's movements. You know, we could see... what they were doing when they clocked in, clocked out, things of that nature. Those had to be verified before we could bill anything out to the state. If it didn't have an electronic visit verification, it couldn't be built. So what I started seeing a lot in the migrant community in particular is they all had a hard time using this app, is what I was always told. There was a language barrier or whatever. They couldn't. We just got to figure up the pace a little. Other staff were using it. So you said, okay, it wasn't a language barrier. You realized it wasn't or a technological problem. When did you realize things were going off track? I saw it a lot, pretty much the whole time, as soon as EVV rolled out, we started seeing staff just weren't using it. And what would happen was the supervisors would create the logs on the back end. And I raised a stink about it then and said, you know, this isn't how this is supposed to operate. They have to be using this legitimately. We just can't create the logs on the back end. And what did they say to you? Every time. And they just kept giving me the same old spiel about it being a language barrier. But like we had other staff that were using it just fine. So I couldn't understand why it was only that community. Do you think some of the money not only was not spent in the right places but left the country? I definitely believe so. We had Abdullahi was gallivanting all over the country. You know, he would go to Kenya. We'd always see him going here and there. You know, he'd stop in the office a couple of times. I'd see him on some meetings and stuff, Zoom calls from Kenya, stuff like that. He was in Dubai a couple times. He was always dressed super nice, always had, you know, snake skin shoes and gator shoes, all kind of Gucci, you know, stuff like that. So, Chris, so how much money do you think was wasted?

Possibly millions, because that went on for years with the EVV stuff, and I couldn't verify those claims. You know, there was no way. So the systems are there to make sure the fraud doesn't happen, but the people running the systems can still defraud them because they have control of the systems on the back end. So there's no way to really know what is and isn't fraud until you go through it and really see which ones were created. on the back end versus in the field. And the CEO of Gateway said he sent some money to militia groups in Somalia. So this is very similar because Maine doesn't have as populated as Minnesota. And again, it's around the Somali community. There's nothing bias or racist. That's facts. Thanks so much for telling your story. I know it costs you your job. Chris, thanks so much. And hopefully you'll be called in front of Congress. Next, the ripple effect of the Venezuelan operation already playing out. Senator Tom Cotton joins us. And the midterms just around the corner, James Blair is here with the Trump game plan for holding the House and Senate. And quick note, be sure to see me on stage. Believe it or not, it's coming up Valentine's Day. Fort Myers, Florida, Brian Killney.com, streamed on Fox Nation, and then Reno, Nevada, May 30th, VIP opportunities available. Don't move.

Yeah, Brian, there's nothing like strength and resolution in international affairs. I think you can also cite the president's decision of bomb Iran's nuclear program last summer as well. Our friends throughout the Western Hemisphere and for that matter around the world are reassured that we have a president that will employ our amazing military and intelligence agencies when it's in our vital national security interest. And our enemies are worried that once again we... have a strong leader in the White House and Donald Trump, not the weakness we saw with Joe Biden, most notably in the humiliating collapse in Afghanistan five years ago. So let's go up to Greenland. I can't believe. I never talk about Greenland until the last year and a half. But this is like our third major chance in our country's history to go get Greenland. I think the first time was right after the Civil War. Got Alaska. We tried for it. Then it wasn't a sentiment to get more land. And after World War II, we basically had to defend it. And I guess in 1951, we had the right to expand our military base there. But that's not good enough. The president is sending the Secretary of State to meet with Danish officials. What should happen, Senator?

Well, Brian, when the president first floated this idea seven years ago in 2019, I wrote an op-ed in the New York Times, which did not cause the editor to be fired, which explained why it's in America and Greenland's interest for America to have sovereignty over Greenland, much like it's a blessing that we bought Alaska. over 150 years ago, something at the time that was called Seward's Folly after the Secretary of State. But who believes it's a folly today that we control nobody? The territory of modern Alaska. Greenland is a vital strategic location. It's important for missile defenses and early warning radars. As you said, in World War II, Greenland and Iceland were contested by the navies of both sides. It's rich in resources that are currently underserved. not being fully exploited. And of course, we have the ability with our vast national treasure and population to support the people in Greenland and bring them more economic development than our friends in Denmark could. As you cite, we have a 1951 treaty that gives us more or less... open access to greenland for military purposes and i think Marco Rubio is going to be meeting with his counterparts from denmark to talk about that treaty and about the prospect of again buying sovereignty over greenland from denmark this is something that's been happened numerous times down our history even with denmark what we today call the u.s virgin islands used to be Danish territory. Woodrow Wilson bought them over 100 years ago, and thankfully he did, because it's always better if we can control territory that has vital access into our hemisphere. And with all the success and how it looks to, it could be economic and security, that's why the president wants to put another $600 billion into the defense budget, and I hope they find a way to get it to him. Senator Tom Cotton, I know you're a confident of the White House. They count on you for insight, and they count it on you on this operation again. Thanks so much for joining us today. Thanks, Brian. You've got to win the midterms. Because if we don't win the midterms, it's just going to be... I mean, they'll find a reason to impeach me. I'll get impeached. We don't impeach them, you know why? Because they're meaner. than we are. We should have impeached Joe Biden for a hundred different things. Yep, that's what the president said. He's doubling down on the importance of keeping control of the House and keeping control of the Senate this November. Trump urging lawmakers this week to focus on key electoral priorities. Number one, affordability, brought up drug prices, and he brought up crime. Joining me now to discuss it is a man who knows the thing or two about this. The White House is...

Playbook in the midterms might be written by him. He is James Blair. He is the deputy chief of staff. James, great to see you. When the president speaks to the caucus this week is actually, that's the pregame to the big game. And the big game started this week. What is in your playbook to lead Republicans to buck history and hold the House and Senate? Well, look, first, as the president said, the president thinks we need to keep getting things done and cast a vision for the American people and keep accomplishing for them. And if they do that, Republicans on Capitol Hill will be rewarded at the ballot box. That process started this past week. The president rolled out a significant housing policy to ban big institutional investors from buying more homes in this country. This is something a lot of people have been frustrated about, and there's been a great response to. The president mentioned that he'll be talking more about that at his speech in Davos, not... in this upcoming week, but the following week, along with a number of other affordability measures. The president will also make news on health care soon. He's been talking about it for several weeks, talking about getting the money to the people so they can buy the health care that they want rather than continuing to send it to big insurance companies whose stock prices have gone up while people's rates have just gone up and they're not getting the care that they want. So there will be big news in housing, big news on health care, and a number of other things coming. down the pike over the next few weeks. The president wants to have a very active year. And when voters come out in November, they will not only have a lot to vote for us, having done what the president said we would do back in 2024, but also why should Republicans be put back in power for the years of 27 and 28? What are we going to accomplish for the voters in those years? And the president is laying out that agenda. So people, experts say, like you, is roughly 35 to 39 seats open in the House? They're going to be hard contests. I know the Senate's not going to be a layup but expected to hold. What number do you go on? How many two seats are actually contenders? Yeah, you know, there's a couple dozen house seats that just mathematically you would say are a competitive. I think the reality is the way that maps exist now. It is most likely that there will be a narrow house majority on either side. I happen to think the Republicans will come back with a relatively narrow house majority. I think the days of 40-seat swings are kind of gone. That is just not the way the maps are configured. So I think in many ways this is a game of inches and a game of yards. But to that point, the way to score touchdowns is to keep getting first downs. And I think that's what the president and Republicans are in Congress are doing every day. So on foreign policy, it's already been a historic presidency. What happened in Venezuela, the bombing of the nuclear program in Iran, taking out the Nigerian anti-Christian movement, the terror movement, can't forget about that. That's just some of it. Now, a lot of people say that that's great, but the American people care about what you just mentioned, domestic politics. And this is a quote from Politico. The broader problem for the White House is that the focus on foreign affairs, once again, crowding out the messaging on affordability with the chief of staff, Susie Wiles, worries that will make it the central theme of the election year. Is that something you worry about?

Here's what I would say. I think the president and Republicans' policies are taking hold. We're seeing that right now. So just this past week, mortgages are falling into the fives for the first time. Now, when President Trump took office, they were in the sevens. Under Joe Biden, mortgages were at almost an 8% interest rate for the typical 30-year fixed-rate mortgage, right? Gas prices under Joe Biden got to over $5 on average at one point across the country. They are now in the area of $250 on average. less than $2 gasoline. So inflation has halted. There was just a great jobs report this back week, this past week. Inflation has halted. Prices are coming down. And there's obviously tax cuts that people are going to feel by April of this year from the last year that we passed last summer, all by Republicans. And Democrats voted against all of it every step of the way. So I think as all those things come together, people are going to continue to recognize, as the numbers show, that what President Trump and the Republicans are doing domestic... and economically is working, and it is going to make them more excited than they have been and to feel better about their six-and-12-month outlook. Real quick, the headline in Politico this weekend, brilliant James, how James Blair took Washington by storm. He's running the White House, the midterm strategy. The outcome will shape Trump's final two years in office and Blair's reputation ahead of this potential 28-JD Vance presidential campaign. It's a lot of pressure on your shoulders. Is that an accurate? Headline, are you brilliant, James? Well, the president has generously said nice things about me at time, which I appreciate. But what's most important is the president is brilliant, and I have the opportunity to work for an administration full of brilliant people that have put a lot aside to come work on behalf of the American people and make their lives better. And that's a really exciting opportunity. It's a great honor. And your timeline shows what hard work and paying attention will do. You've gotten everyone's respect. James Blair, continued success. Thanks so much. I appreciate it. Next, the media moments that matter with Tommy Lerrin, and they matter to her. Bring up the music. Welcome to Fox News Live. I'm Ashley Stremire in New York. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is deploying more law enforcement to Minneapolis. She says hundreds more ICE agents will arrive in the city over the coming days. The latest surge comes after 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good was shot and killed by an off. an ICE officer last week. That shooting ignited protests across the city and country over the weekend. Top federal officials, including President Trump, are defending that agent. They claim he was protecting himself from being run over. But state and local leaders are condemning the shooting as unjustified and preventable. Homeland Security says it's been carrying out the biggest immigration enforcement operation ever in Minnesota. More than 2,000 arrests have reportedly been made across the state since the immigration crackdown operation. started last month. I'm Ashley Strohmeyer. Back to One Nation with Brian Kilmeade.

moments that matter. Yes, time now for media moments that matter. The one segment that all the country agrees is the best ever. This week I gave the VCR, my TV guide, all my cords, and my tape stock to big weekend show co-host Tommy Lairn. Tommy, I gave you all the equipment again. Were you able to come up? Thanks so much for doing this, by the way. Have you able to come up with any media moments that really matter? A few moments that matter. All moments really matter, of course. The media gives us so much every week. But I've narrowed it down to, I think, my top three. I don't want to spoil it through the audience. One of them includes you, Sweet Brian Kilmeade. We're going to get to that one last. Save the best for last. I want to start off with this one. All right. I don't know if you heard. I know we covered it. But there's a hammer-wielding psychopath that attacked the home of Vice President JD Vance. The family, thank goodness, was not home. Now, that would be important to cover, you'd think. But some of the mainstream media net... They decided, not so important. I think PBS, 30 seconds, NBC, 40 seconds, ABC, not at all. CBS, not at all. You see it right there. Apparently not important to cover an act of domestic terrorism on the vice president's home in Ohio. But they did have time to cover some other breaking news. Oh, yeah? I want you to hear what was more important. Community leaders found 12 local volunteers to pose 4A, yes, nude calendar. It's called Outback Naked. Yours for a $25 donation to the town. Now, don't worry, as you can see, thanks to some artfully placed power tools and flower pots and the like. The mostly middle-aged and elderly models are still safe for your television. To the index, well, they call it Black Monday in the NFL for a reason. Four NFL head coaches already fired tonight. Right. The vice president attacked, his family, could have been hit, but we can't really cover that. They covered the speaker's husband when he got hit by a hammer attack, right? Rightfully so. But outbacked naked, more important, did you get your calendar yet to support that town? CBS had a tough week. They also fired their executive producer on the show. Number two. Number two. Okay, there are a few comedians left. still get it. I think Conan might be one of them, but he's blasting his cohorts in the field saying that they're not really funny anymore and probably because of their TDS. Take a listen to this. Some comics go the route of, I'm going to just say F Trump every all the time or that's their comedy. And I think, well, now a little bit you're being co-opted because you're so angry. You've been lulled. It's like a siren leading you into the rocks. You've been lulled into just saying F Trump, F Trump, F Trump, screw this guy. You know, and I think. you've now put down your best weapon, which is being funny, and you've exchanged it for anger. Yeah, he's funny first. I don't think he would ever vote for Trump, so it doesn't matter, though. You watch his show, you didn't know that. You watched Carson, you never knew that. You watched Leno. You don't know what we voted for. But now you have Kimmel and Stephen Colbert. They're like shows that belong on MSNBC. And they're not funny.

If you're going to poke at Trump, at least be funny because President Trump is so funny. Right. So President Trump being the president is more humorous and comedic than these three losers. Or go to the other side once in a while and just find the humor instead of the anger. Next, John Stewart. Yes. I saved the best for last. Why? Now, John Stewart, arguably may be still funny. I don't know. But he saved a segment. A personal shout out for you, sweet Brian Kilmeade. Take a look. who haven't received the memo that we no longer have to frame our adventurism in the ideals of our great country. The president doesn't want us natural resources. We don't want their oil. Oh, poor sweet Brian Kilmeade. Sweet, sweet Brian. Trump already explicitly said he wants their oil. Listen, I think that's funny. And of course, what he says about, he was using the oil as leverage because no one can really produce their oil back to where it was at two or three million barrels a day. They're at 300,000 now. But that's funny. I don't see any problem with that. Were you flattered by it, Brian? No. Flattered? No, actually, it's Gutfeldian as opposed to anger and what you get in the other channels. I do think John Stewart's funny. But now it's sweet brain kill me. Right. As you will heretofore be referred. Which that actually was what Matt calls me prior to that segment. Thank you very much. Tommy, great to. I can't wait to watch you all weekend. I loved watching you all weekend, I should say, but I like watching you every weekend. I know a lot of times you go home over the weekend. I stay right here for six hours. All right, it's time for the much-fally hoot sneak peek of the week. What you can look forward to this week is Secretary of State Marco Rubio, any national security advisor, set to meet with Danish officials about interest in Greenland. Tommy, if you bring you a checkbook, I think we get it. And I'm going to be the princess of Greenland, Brian. And I think it'll be great. You don't have much responsibility, only 85,000 people there. Two hearings to watch out for. One, to examine ways to detect and prevent federal fraud. We could have had this eight years ago. The other, to Joe Biden's Afghan. parole program. A disaster, you agree? We're leering a lot about it all, Brian. The White House will present Trump's Ballroom Project Review to the National Capital Planning Commission. Here's the secret. He's already building it. And plus, in the NFL, divisional round of the playoffs, please don't air him during our show. next. The Trump administration looking to put money back in your pockets. Congressman Jason Smith is next. Don't forget to follow me on social media at Rumble, Instagram, X, and Facebook, and if you want to get intimate, Coper Club on locals, World One Nation in just a moment. Tommy Laron, thank you so much.

So President Trump working overtime to make America affordable again, the administration making key moves to put money back in your pocket, rolling out a tax incentive on car loans for cars made in America, banning Wall Street investing firms from buying single-family homes, about time, and an executive order expected next week that would allow people to dip into their retirement, 401Ks, like, for example, or 529s or your college savings plans, if it helps you get a down payment for a house. here to explain how all this works and affect you. It's the man with the book. He's the chairman of the House and Wayne's Committee, Congressman Jason Smith of Missouri. Chairman, great to see you. First off, I'll go one by one. The president's looking to have a big year with the economy. We know about the big, beautiful bill. First off, what do you think the impact is with the car loans? Be able to write that off. Well, just the passage of the Big Beautiful Bill being early in the year in July is really, really putting jet fuel to the economy. You're seeing that with the GDP hitting record levels, 4.3% this last time. But when it comes to various tax provisions within the one big, beautiful bill, one that will help working families and also help increase manufacturing in the United States is where people can deduct. auto loan interest for cars that are manufactured in the United States. And they can do that above the line in their taxes. That'll be interesting. How do you feel, and you know, this has been executive orders. It's going to go through your committee and they want your input. But be able to tap into your 529s, college loans, or for your 401Ks or your retirement, your pensions, in order to put money down in a house. How do you feel about that? Well, if you just look at when President Trump left office, the average age for a first time home buyer was 32 years old. And right now, it is 40. So basically, young people have been priced out of the opportunity to purchase a first-time home. And the president's lead in his leadership in doing everything he can to help make the American dream become a reality, we should champion that. Whether it's looking at the 529s or even the mortgage buybacks. The president also wants 1.5 trillion dollars for the defense budget, an extra 600 billion. Can you find it for him? You know, that's going to be very difficult because we have a very narrow majority. We have 218. Republicans in the House, and there's 218 votes to have the majority. And a lot of my colleagues want to balance the budget. They want to reduce spending. And adding additional spending of that magnitude is going to be very, very difficult. Even though we found $200 billion in tariff money, what about this? And this is a little over my head. He wants to take about $200 billion from Fannie and Freddie, which he spun on his own, and buy bonds with it.

from fanny and freddie how do you feel about that how would that work how would people feel it You know, I think that's a great approach. It will help drive down mortgage interest rates, which will be very, very helpful and create more of an opportunity for people to be a homeowner. And that's what ultimately we want, is more people to be homeowners. And that's what the president's doing. We also need to get those interest rates down. And you've seen that the Fed has, over the last two announcements, lowered interest rates, but they need to continue to do so more. You pointed out to prior to the interview. with CBO how wrong they've been. But first they have, you had growing at 2% as 4%, then 1.9, you grew more, doubled that. And now the Atlanta Fed thinks we can grow as much as 5.2%. That's exactly right, Brian. The economy is on jet fuel, and the Congressional Budget Office, their scorekeepers, have been so wrong. They said that the second quarter would be 2%. In fact, it was 3.8%. They said the third quarter would be 1.9%. It was 4.3. And now with the Atlantic Fed predicting 5.4, the economy is on jet fuel, and it's because of the work and the work of the president and also the passage of the one big, beautiful bill. January 22nd, you're going to have a hearing. It's going to be really important. Hopefully they'll cover it. You're going to grill insurance companies, CEOs on making health care affordable. You know they're getting the money and all those subsidies that Joe Biden gave them. And what we know is costs are going up and deductibles are going up. And now they want more of that money. What are you going to ask? You know, Republicans are focused on lowering the price of health care and premiums for every single American. That's all 347 million Americans. And I have not found, Brian, one person that says that they're happy with their health insurance provider. And so it's important to have these health insurance companies before the committee so they can justify why these premiums have been continuing to rise. Jason Smith, thanks so much. And ladies and gentlemen, that is it for Jason, and that's just it for us tonight. I want you to listen to my radio show, especially this week. I'll be live in Germany at a premier American army base. One of my guests, one of the best in the business, four-star general, Chris Donahue. And we're going to have Fox and friends. I'll be able to give some updates from there and come back with some great features. So as I leave, I'll say this. Stay within yourself and always keep it right here on Fox News.