VP JD Vance speaks in Rocky Mount: Focuses on affordability and November election
Thank y'all thank you all
Please please take a seat and uh we've got got
some time to spend with one another so I wanna
first thank a few of the great people who are
here who make this possible and are leading I think
helping us lead America's and North Carolina's comeback
So first of all to our great Senate candidate here
in the state of North Carolina Michael Watley thank you
Michael for everything that you're doing
For our great congressional candidate in this district Laurie Buckout
where are you Laurie Thank you so much
It's good to see you
An officer in our military and now a person who
wants to serve this great district and actually do something
good for the people of this district instead of just
voting with Nancy Pelosi which is exactly what Don Davis
does every single day
He's in Washington DC
So Laurie thank you
We're gonna talk a little bit more about your race
here in a second but a lot of you know
I know that this state has a very special place
in my heart because I grew up in a poor
family
I was raised by my grandmother and then when I
graduated from high school back in 2003 I enlisted in
the United States Marine Corps and I really spent the
1st 4 years of my adulthood not too far from
here in the eastern part of our state um you
know becoming a a young marine and and frankly becoming
a young man
And I'll never forget one of the the first major
purchases I ever made in my entire life was when
I wanted to buy for the first time I wanted
to buy my own car as a young marine
I was probably 19 years old and I go to
one of these off-base used car dealerships and I find
a Honda Civic
It's practical it's cheap
It does everything I need it to do and I'm
gonna get the dealer's low low interest rate financing of
21%
And And by the grace of God I had a
great United States Marine Corps gunnery sergeant Gunny Arledge
I went back
I said Gunny I got a great great news for
you
He said What He said I'm gonna I'm gonna buy
my first car
He said Congratulations Marine
That's a big step for a young Marine
He said What's your interest rate I said 21%
And he nearly smacked me upside the head
And he said stop being an idiot and he didn't
say that he used more colorful language but I said
we have a couple of couple of young people out
there
He said go to Navy Federal Credit Union and I
got an 8% interest rate and bought my car without
breaking the bank so that was my
That was one of many uh many lessons the state
of North Carolina taught me but what we're trying to
do I talk about uh the difference between a 21%
interest rate that the used car dealer offered me and
the 8% interest rate that I got offered at a
credit union and that's pretty much the difference between the
Joe Biden and Donald Trump economic plan for the United
States of America because
And just a very brief time we've seen new home
purchases rise to their highest level in 5 years since
the last time Donald Trump was president
We've seen the cost of rents drop for 6 months
in a row
We've seen the average tax refund that's going to come
to the
People of North Carolina about $3700 per family and we
see interest rates that are the lowest they've been since
the last time that Donald J
Trump was president
My friends the president is impatient
He's the most impatient person I have ever met in
fact
He constantly is pressing on the gas
He wants us to do more but I stand here
proud to say that after the first year of President
Donald Trump and congressional Republicans leadership we are rebuilding the
American dream and we are taking back this country for
the people of this state
Now there are a number of things that I'm proud
of a number of things I wanna brag on but
I actually want to take a little bit of an
audience poll because I was looking at some of the
things that we put in the working families tax cut
this one big great big beautiful bill
Now there that bill is over 1100 pages long and
unlike most of these bills that are way too long
this is chock full of good stuff for the people
of this district the people of this state but there
are a few things in particular that I think are
important for this state
Number one
Number one that piece of legislation the working families tax
cuts had the biggest tax cut for Social Security benefits
that we've ever seen in the United States of America
Number 2 it wasn't just Social Security recipients
Number 2 that legislation had the biggest tax cut for
people making under $100,000 that we have ever seen in
tax legislation in this country
And number 3 that wasn't in the working families tax
cut but one of the things I'm very proud of
is that we forced all localities whether they're red states
or blue states to report crime accurately so we could
go to war against violent crime and the criminals who
do that violent crime
Now now those are 3 things and I on on
this part I only want you to clap once because
again I'm gonna take an audience poll here
I'm gonna ask you what your favorite of those 3
pieces of legislation those 3 accomplishments are that we've had
so far in the Trump administration
So if your favorite thing of those 3 is no
taxes on Social Security let me hear it
OK if your favorite thing is the biggest tax cuts
for people making under 1000 let me hear that
OK and if your favorite thing is that we've gone
to war against violent criminals let me hear that
Now I said only applaud once and there's a guy
up here
He applauded at least twice
He cheated the system but I guess he wanted to
he wanted to save his applause till the very end
but we all heard the response
You know who did not clap for a single one
of those great accomplishments of the Trump administration Don Davis
because he voted against every single one of them
Don Davis voted against cutting taxes on Social Security
Don Davis voted against cutting taxes on those making under
$100,000 a year and Don Davis voted against going to
war against violent criminals
Don Davis is not a man who stands for the
people of this state or this district
He is a person who does exactly what Nancy Pelosi
tells him to do and in November we're going to
send him home and get him out of Washington DC
Now the crazy thing y'all about the crazy thing about
a guy like Don Davis is you know sometimes you
you you you meet a a Democrat in a red
district
And you know I don't agree with him on everything
of course Democrats Republicans disagree on politics from time to
time but you at least have some people out there
or maybe used to who would vote their conscience or
vote the interests of their district
What makes Don so unusual is that we are in
a common sense district here in the state of North
Carolina and this guy still votes every single time with
Nancy Pelosi
In fact I asked my team I said find a
major piece of legislation find something easy where Don Davis
could vote against the Democrats and vote with his district
the moderates the independents even the conservative Democrats
Find me one example where this guy defied the leadership
of his own party
He has never done that on any major issue that
we could find
And here here's here's just an easy a layup Don
an easy layup that we gave you frankly it would
have been bad for Laurie's poor Laurie's campaign chances but
he couldn't even take the bait on the Save America
Act
Now if you know anything about this legislation what the
Save America Act does is that it makes it impossible
for illegal aliens to vote in our elections
Pretty common sense
Now I think that's pretty easy right We don't want
illegal aliens voting in our elections
My favorite thing is whenever I bring this up you'll
have some Democrat on TV who will say Well we
don't have to worry about that because illegal immigrants voting
in our elections is very rare
Well number 1 how about we put it to 0
OK even if you're right
Number 2 you're not right
It happens way more often than a lot of people
appreciate
In fact just this week ICE arrested an illegal immigrant
I'm gonna read this because I wanna make sure I
get it right an illegal immigrant from Mauritania who's voted
in 7 federal elections since 2008
And I haven't got good authority that in every single
election he voted for Don Davis
No I don't know about that
I don't know where he voted but I guarantee it
wasn't for us OK It wasn't for America first policies
Now here's the thing though even if you take the
Democrats at their word even if illegal aliens voting is
very rare then why don't we ban it anyway It's
not that complicated
It is one thing to say I don't get it
The Democrats say this never happens or it happens only
very rarely on the one hand and on the other
hand we must not stop it
It doesn't make a damn bit of sense
We need to get all illegal aliens stopping from voting
in our elections
It's very common sense stuff
But even on that even on that Don Davis could
not be persuaded to vote for the people of this
district
That's like an 85% issue
You look at the majority of even Democrats across our
country a solid majority of Democrats want to pass the
Save America Act but not the guy who allegedly represents
the state of North Carolina who represents this district
So you gotta kind of ask yourself if you got
a guy who votes against tax cuts for Social Security
If Don Davis votes against tax cuts for people making
100 under $100,000 a year if Don Davis votes against
going to war against criminal illegal aliens and violent criminals
then Don Davis doesn't really represent you
Let's vote for Laurie a person who will and will
do so proudly
Now I wanna say a couple of other things because
I've I've uh I've I've given Don Davis a lot
of attention here and now I'm gonna go on to
Roy Cooper
So So first of all on every single thing now
Roy wasn't in Washington DC but on every single one
of these critical wins for the Trump administration to have
gotten for the people of this district the people of
the state Roy Cooper would have voted against all that
That's the reason number one we can't send a guy
to the Senate
We want a senator who represents you
We want a senator who doesn't represent illegal aliens and
fraud but who represents hard work and the good people
of the state of North Carolina and because we want
those things we we need Michael Watley in the United
States Senate not Roy Cooper Michael
Now he stood up and clapped for that
It would have been a bad sign if he wouldn't
have stood up and clapped for that but he he
passed the test there
So so here's here's the thing about Mike uh about
uh Roy Cooper OK So there's been a lot of
debate about what exactly our our foreign policy should be
with regards to Russia and Ukraine
The president of the United States has been very clear
he wants the killing to stop
He wants to get back to commerce
He wants to stop the innocent people who are losing
their lives in that conflict
I happen to admire that of course I think it's
I'm biased but I think that's the right idea
Now here's here's the crazy thing though about Roy Cooper
Roy Cooper is one of these people who clearly cares
way more for foreign countries than he does the United
States of America
You see the passion in his voice when he talks
about protecting illegal aliens
You'll never hear that passion when he's talking about the
people in this room
You hear the passion in his voice when he talks
about sending hundreds of billions of dollars to the war
in Ukraine
And yet and yet the one Ukrainian Roy Cooper didn't
care about was this innocent girl Irina who had her
throat slashed by a person who should have never been
on the streets of this country to begin with
So ask yourself
So ask yourself why did he spend his entire career
making it hard to lock up violent criminals Why did
he spend his entire career going after our brave police
officers who are trying to keep our streets safe Why
does he care so much about the war in Ukraine
6000 Miles away but doesn't give a damn about an
innocent Ukrainian girl who lost her life in our backyard
because he wouldn't do his job and the simple fact
is that Roy Cooper doesn't stand for you
He doesn't fight for you
He will never fight for you but Michael Watley will
He better he better but he will
I know he will
He's a good man
I know he will
Let me just say a couple of final things because
I wanna brag on the president
I wanna brag on what we've been able to accomplish
in Washington
First of all we we under the Biden administration we
dug ourselves a hole in this country
We gotta be honest about that fact
The the average American family under Joe Biden's leadership lost
about $3300 in take-home pay
Now that was a combination of higher taxes but also
that terrible inflation crisis that we had when Joe Biden
was president
When Joe Biden was president not a single month did
we see inflation as low as it was last month
and the month before under Donald Trump's leadership
That's something big to brag on
That's something big to celebrate because what that means is
that you and your families can afford to live a
better life
When Joe Biden was spending all that money on green
new scams when he was driving up
The cost of everything he was making it hard for
you and your families to get by in this beautiful
country that all of us love so I happen to
think it's a pretty nice thing that we've got a
president of the United States that is not fighting to
give away hundreds of billions of dollars to green energy
scams but is fighting to keep the American people's money
in the American people's pocket because that's exactly where it
belongs
But what we've seen in about you know a year
and a month I guess of President Trump's leadership is
that the average American family while while they lost $3200
when Biden was president they've gained about $1300 while Donald
Trump was president
Now that's dollars and cents
Now there's a good news and a bad news to
that
The good news is that means you're $1300 richer than
you were about a year ago
That's what we're fighting for
That's what we care the most about is your prosperity
The bad news is we are still going to dig
ourselves out of that hole that Joe Biden put us
in
I think the best way the best way to confront
this problem is to be honest about it
And we all know Joe Biden put us in a
big hole
So to the Democrats who talk about affordability a lot
of the time why don't you look yourselves in the
mirror Because the president who caused an affordability crisis was
Joe Biden and the president who has made the American
people $1300 richer is Donald J
Trump
We got all these things we could talk about
We can talk about the fact that we have homicides
in this country at the lowest level that they have
been in 125 years
Unreal
Just absolutely unbelievable progress on so many of these issues
and and and we ought to talk about why is
it that we got homicides so low and I'll give
you two reasons
Number one the president of the United States the vice
president of the United States happened to believe that we
ought to be using federal power to support our cops
instead of fighting against them
Isn't that common sense But But we also believe that
the best way to lower homicides and carjackings and other
violent crime is to get the illegal alien criminals out
of the United States of America and that's what we've
been doing
And I I I just can't get over the fact
that Democrats are so passionate about defending the rights of
illegal aliens over American citizens
It is the one thing that will get the Democrats
really fired up you know a few weeks ago we
had the State of the Union address and and like
the Speaker of the House I I'm
One of the people who has a very unique perspective
into the State of the Union because I'm sitting directly
behind the president of the United States and maybe my
favorite point in that whole speech is when he's and
he actually added this line towards the end of the
day before he gave the speech but where he says
I'm gonna say something and I want you to stand
up and applaud if you agree with it
And he says we believe that the American government should
serve the interests of the American people not illegal aliens
OK again a layup for our friend Don Davis
He should have been out there clapping and cheering
Who could possibly disagree with that but of course he
did nothing like the rest of the Democrats
But the the funny thing about it is they were
so miserable because they realized that we had them in
a bind
You could tell even a few of them were looking
around like well
This is like we should be standing up and clapping
for this
But like what are our our leaders gonna get mad
at us Is is Nancy Pelosi gonna you know gonna
gonna take away some of our campaign money You could
tell they didn't know what to do and that's maybe
the biggest indictment of the modern Democratic Party
We talk about all these policies that you and I
care about
We talk about lowering taxes on Social Security about putting
more money in your pocket
We talk about bringing tons of resources into this country
to rebuild the American economy public safety all this stuff
matters
But the thing that maybe matters way more than any
single issue is that Democratic leadership in Washington DC they
cannot stand up for the simple principle that they fight
for you and not an illegal alien
They can't stand up and clap for the fact that
we're gonna go to war on fraud in this country
like we've never done instead of taking your hard earned
money and giving it to people who don't deserve it
The entire Democratic Party all of these policy disagreements all
of that stuff doesn't matter compared to the fact that
they don't see themselves as your advocates and Republicans we
do now
I'm not saying that's true of the Democrats all across
our country
I think there are a lot of Democrats like my
mama and papa were Democrats conservative Democrats who love their
country but the Democrats that we have in Washington DC
they are a different breed
And we cannot fool ourselves that something has gone fundamentally
wrong in that party
Their reason for existing is to fight for fraud to
fight for corruption and to fight for people who have
no right to be in this country
And Michael Waltley and Laurie Buckout their reason for being
is to fight for you and that's why we're here
today
Now I have just a couple of final thoughts and
I'll take a few questions from the media and then
we'll have to get on the road
So so one final thought is and and Kelly knows
this Michael Watley knows this by the way I forgot
to say thank you to our great SBA administrator Kelly
Loeffler
Thank you Kelly for everything that you're doing
Kelly has already identified hundreds of millions of dollars of
fraudulent payments and has cut that stuff out of our
system
I think it'll be billions by the end of the
year
She is fighting for you every single day like all
of us are trying to do in the Trump administration
and as Kelly knows when you give a speech you
talk to people and it's uh you know I'm sure
it's being televised right now because I am the vice
president
The president thank you
But the president always called me and he'll always say
like she talked about coal earlier you know I've talked
so many times about ending the war on coal we've
got great coal resources and I'll come off stage and
think I did a great job and the president will
call me and say JD did a great job great
speech but it's not coal it's clean beautiful coal
So for the president you gotta know
His his strong political advice is it's not coal anymore
It is clean beautiful coal
But I actually was with the president earlier today in
the Oval Office
We're talking about you know a lot of issues that
are going on and he said JD tell the people
of North Carolina two things and I was I almost
forgot this and I was gonna get in trouble
I was gonna get one of those phone calls Kelly
But the president said tell the people of North Carolina
two things
First of all tell them I love them and we're
gonna be with them every single step of the way
That was the first message from the president
So I've now delivered that and
And tell them that their great furniture industry you know
all the the cabinetry the beautiful craftsmanship that this region
of our country was known for say tell them
That we're going to fight for that industry like never
before and if and if you're building something if you're
building a furniture facility a furniture business right here in
the state of North Carolina we're going to cut your
taxes
But if you're trying to bring in foreign furniture to
undercut the jobs of the people of North Carolina we're
going to raise your taxes by 50%
We're going to put a big fat tariff on those
foreign companies bringing that stuff in the United States
So Mr
President I've delivered that message too
I hope I get an A plus on this particular
speech but here let me let me just leave you
with one final thought
You you heard Kelly and Michael and and and everybody's
talked about this
This is one of as I know very personally one
of the proudest states for military leadership and military service
anywhere in the country and I know you all are
proud of that and you should be
We've got incredible bases from all across the services
We've got great marine bases Army bases and so forth
in the great state of North Carolina and I know
it's such an important part of the state not just
economically that that that matters but set to the side
the dollars and cents
You all I mean raise your hand if you've served
in the United States military
Let's give those guys a round of applause
So thank you to all of our veterans a pretty
good chunk of veterans just here in this audience but
here here's here's the thing you all know that right
now we are engaged in a military operation to ensure
as the president has said repeatedly that Iran can never
have a nuclear weapon
That is a simple simple principle and standard
Frankly every president said that they believed that
Donald J
Trump has taken affirmative steps to ensure that Iran can
never have a nuclear weapon now
But we also know that there are a lot of
people from the state of North Carolina who are in
harm's way right now
And so I want all of us when we go
home we leave this event I want all of us
to say a prayer not just for the North Carolinians
but for the people of all of our 50 states
who put on the uniform and are willing to sacrifice
for the safety and security and freedom of the United
States of America
I want every single person I want you to tell
every single person who is serving overseas in harm's way
that this crowd in North Carolina has their back
Thank you all
So with that let me take a few questions from
our media and then I'll uh and then I'll have
to hit the road here
I I'd like to start with the local reporters
We'll get time to the national folks uh if we
got it
Hi I'm Danielle Battagli
I'm with the News and Observer
You've spoken a lot today about Irena Zarutska's death and
uh that resulted in Operation Charlotte's Web
Senator Thom Tillis has asked a lot from the Department
of Homeland Security about what happened with Operation Charlotte's Web
He said his answers are or his questions are unanswered
by DHS and one of those questions is if American
citizens were arrested during Operation Charlotte's Web
I was wondering if you could answer that today
Well look Operation Charlotte's Web is fundamentally an operation to
try to make our country safe by getting violent criminals
off the streets of the United States of America
Now I was not aware that Tom Tillis who's a
friend of mine he and I've had our disagreements but
Tom Tillis and I know each other
Um I I'll go back and and and offer to
speak with Tom about this
I didn't know that he said his questions had been
unanswered by DHS
Now that may be
Because he asked those questions a week ago and they
haven't had time to answer them you may have seen
we've had a little bit of turnover in the Department
of Homeland Security but what I do promise Tom is
that the new leadership at DHS is gonna get him
a response to his questions but we're gonna keep on
using the Department of Homeland Security to do the very
simple thing of making the homeland more secure
That's why it exists and we're gonna keep on doing
that
Hi Mr
Vice President Bill Barrow with the Associated Press uh what
did you advise the president initially as he considered his
actions in Iran and what are you urging him to
do now especially with Americans seeing higher prices at the
pump and some of the fallout from that across the
economy Do you express any concerns like those you've expressed
in the past on the possibility of these extended wars
Well Bill I I appreciate the question
I know you guys have to ask it but but
but imagine the situation we're we're in the situation room
where you can't even take your you know iPod in
there or your your AirPods I guess what they're called
You can't take your iPhone in there
You can't take anything in there because it is the
most classified space anywhere in the world and I sit
there with Pete Hegseth and General Kaine and Marco Rubio
and the entire White House team
And the president and I and the entire senior team
are talking about the options and about what we need
to do and about how we must best protect the
American people
I hate to disappoint you but I'm not gonna show
up here in front of God and everybody else tell
you exactly what I said in that classified room partially
because I don't wanna go to prison
And partially because I think it's important for the President
of the United States to be able to talk to
his advisors without those advisers running their mouth to the
American media
Thank you all
Now now that said one thing I can promise you
is that Chris Wright our great Secretary of Energy and
Scott Basin our Secretary of the Treasury have been running
the administration's response to the economic element of this because
we know obviously when the President takes action to make
sure the American people are safe we've got to do
everything that we can to deal with the consequences of
that economically and it's not just you know oil
There's a whole host of things
Things that we're focused on in the administration to try
to ensure that we do the right thing by the
American people
What the president has said very clearly is that he
does not like oil prices higher oil prices and neither
do I but he also believes that we're going to
make the American people safer and that we're going to
bring those prices at the pump back down to the
levels they need to be for the American people
Now here's the interesting thing
All this conversation happens where Joe Biden left us in
a terrible situation and the reason why gas prices are
where they are today is because of Donald Trump's work
to get them lower because in the Biden administration they
were crazy high
The gas prices we're seeing today are nothing like what
we saw at the peak of the Biden administration because
the president has set us up for energy dominance and
one of the lessons we all have to take away
frankly every time we get involved in anything overseas whether
it's in the Middle East or anywhere else the thing
we got to take away from it is energy dominance
and energy independence
We rely on our own people rely on our own
energy
Mr
President thank you
I'm Dina with CBS 17 right over in Raleigh
Um Eastern North Carolina Western North Carolina two communities that
have been really really impacted by disasters hurricanes uh over
in Eastern North Carolina they happened a decade ago
Uh Western North Carolina still dealing with Hurricane
recovery
We heard from Governor Josh Stein several times that North
Carolina has only gotten a fraction of what other states
have gotten in federal funding for recovery for both communities
Can you talk a little bit about what your administration
is doing to help the people that are still out
of their houses still not having businesses the same So
one of the things I love about Michael Watley is
look he obviously is a Republican he's committed to the
conservative agenda he's a great guy and obviously I'm I'm
aligned with him politically but he's not afraid to say
to me or to the president of the United States
or anybody else we've got to get these resources out
faster to protect the people of North Carolina
So I actually before you ask that question I heard
that from Michael Watley and I actually talked to the
secretary of the Treasury
Because I knew Michael was gonna ask me about it
again when I saw him here today
The simple fact is we have made this a priority
We're gonna get the resources to the people of North
Carolina that are necessary
We recognize that they're um we recognize frankly that we
needed the new leadership to hasten that delivery of resources
to the people of North Carolina
A lot of people in the media have said that
you know the reason why we made a change at
DHS is
Because the Trump administration is backing off of its illegal
immigration enforcement policy that could be further from the truth
The reason that we're making this change is because Christie
Nome has a great opportunity to serve in this new
shield of the Americas position
I think she's gonna do a great job
And on the other hand we think it's useful to
have somebody come in and focus on some of this
disaster relief and recovery stuff and that's exactly what we're
gonna do
But I appreciate Michael bringing that to my attention
and I appreciate all the great people that represent North
Carolina even many Republicans OK who you might think just
because they're politically aligned trust me to all the people
I want them to know that even maybe especially the
people who are politically aligned are more willing to be
independent and more willing to tell us we gotta quicken
those resources to the people of North Carolina
I admire them for their courage and it's gonna mean
better results for the people in this district
Thank you
Why don't we take one more question Mr
Vice President Preston Mao with Fox News Digital
I wanna ask you real quick
You're leading the anti-fraud task force
I wanted to get a quick update on that maybe
some of the findings that you found in Minnesota but
also you've mentioned before that you're interested in targeting other
states as part of that task force
Are there other states that you've been looked at that
you've looked at or that you may have flagged for
potential fraud Well you know
We know there's a lot of fraud in California and
we're trying to get to the bottom of exactly what
it looks like and what we've done in the Trump
administration and the president has really empowered us to do
this is to take the first national look at the
way the American people have been defrauded over many many
years and I'll give you a few very concrete examples
So in the state of Minnesota
You you you asked about Minnesota
We think that there's probably been $19 billion at least
of fraud just committed in Minneapolis and the surrounding areas
Let me give you an example of this because it's
not just the American people being defrauded
It's not just your tax dollars that are being stolen
out of your wallet and given to fraudsters
It's the fact that the services we need to deliver
to needy people are
Not getting delivered because they're going to fraudsters
So for example there's a program that we have and
I believe it's under Medicaid where we try to help
kids who have you know autism Asperger's and so forth
Sometimes they need a little extra help
Sometimes they need somebody to sit with them after school
Sometimes they need somebody to provide transportation to certain places
and we have
Program within Medicaid to ensure that these needy kids get
the resources that they need and it's one of the
things by the way I love about the United States
of America
We want everybody to work hard
We want everybody to play by the rules but if
we've got a needy kid in our community we're not
gonna let that person fall down on their own
All Americans are going to lift that kid up together
That's an amazing thing about our country
But you know what was happening for this program that
was meant to help needy kids is you would have
Somali fraudsters many of them illegal immigrants who would go
and say that they had an autistic kid even though
they didn't they would collect that money for themselves
You had businesses that were going around and rewarding families
for
Engaging in this fraud so the businesses were skimming off
the top and getting rich in the process
How disgraceful is it that Democrats allowed a program that
was meant to help needy American children to go to
Somali illegal aliens
The president of the United States stopped it and there's
a lot more fraud beyond that that we're going to
stop as well
The one last point that I'll make here before we
have to hit the road is I I I hate
to say this and it's been shocking to me as
we've gotten in this and we wanna you know frankly
we want to arrest the people who engaged in criminal
fraud
We want to make sure that the people who did
this stuff realize there are serious consequences for it happening
We want to make sure that the needy kids all
across our communities get what they need
There are so many layers to this anti-fraud initiative that
the president has directed the administration to focus on but
you know what's so crazy about this That nobody until
Donald J
Trump thought to focus on it
Now I I obviously I love the president
I admire the president but this fraud was staring us
in the face and nobody was doing anything about it
This is not rocket science when you have a Somali
fraudster come into the United States illegally and then set
up a school to collect tax dollars and the name
of the school is the Quality Learning Center
Learning Center but when they put the sign up they
take the in out so it says Quality Leering Center
And that group the Quality Leering Center I don't know
about you but I don't want to send my kids
to a school where they can't spell learn
That group was getting millions of dollars from the American
taxpayer
There is so much fraud in our system
There are illegal aliens who shouldn't be here who are
on Medicaid
There are there are companies that are that are set
up to provide medical devices you know knee joints and
hip joints and other medical devices that are necessary for
people's health that have collected hundreds of millions of dollars
and have produced precisely zero medical devices that have helped
our people
This stuff has been going on forever and every single
person in this audience should be scandalized by it
But here's the crazy thing it's not that all of
you are scandalized that you're getting stolen from the crazy
thing is that we had a Democratic leadership who didn't
do anything about it
And so here is what I promise every single person
here every single person watching every single person in the
state of North Carolina
That we are done allowing you to be stolen from
we are done allowing you to be defrauded
We're gonna go after the fraud and we're gonna rebuild
the American dream by making sure that it goes to
Americans first and Americans only
God bless you all and thank you for having me