GOP Congress Goes After the ‘Ethnic Scam’ Crippling America

Republicans are discovering billions of taxpayers’ dollars going to waste, being spent fraudulently, and abused by American bureaucracy systems, specifically the welfare state. Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, is leading the fraud investigations, rooted in immigration policy issues, in Congress.

“A lot of this is being done by foreigners,” Gill said at a Republican Study Committee roundtable on Thursday.

“We’ve got two different issues here, an immigration issue, and the welfare state issue. We’re focusing on the latter here on waste, fraud, and abuse. But when you bring in infinity Third Worlders into American society, from low trust countries, you kind of expect low trust behavior,” Gill continued.

Gill’s task force was initiated by the massive amounts of fraud uncovered since Donald Trump’s return to office, beginning with the fraud and waste revealed by DOGE, Somali childcare fraud in Minnesota discovered by citizen journalist Nick Shirley, and the foreign Medicare fraud in Ohio recently uncovered by Daily Wire investigative reporter Luke Rosiak.

“It’s just unbelievable, and the only piece we needed to see how corrupt this was, was to see who was getting paid by Medicaid,” Rosiak said at the RSC.

Rosiak continued, describing the fraud he saw as an “ethnic scam.”

“It’s in Ohio with almost entirely the Somalians and the Bhutanese, people from Bhutan, and they operate within those ethnic communities where a lot of people live in intergenerational houses and they don’t speak English, and they’re all on Medicaid.

“There’s kickback schemes and all kinds of corrupt stuff, criminals. But at the core of it is a lot of Somalis and Bhutanese, who aren’t that sick, on this government program, which is very, very expensive, which was intended for Americans who are very seriously ill. So, this is going to take a combination of fraud prosecutions, but also significant policy changes,” Rosiak continued.

Gill and Rosiak were joined by some of the “strongest” fraud-concerned members of the Republican conference: Reps. Ben Cline of Virginia, Michael Cloud of Texas, Tim Burchett of Tennessee, Ralph Norman of South Carolina, Laurel Lee of Florida, Abe Hamadeh of Arizona, and Mike Kennedy of Utah.

Cloud claimed that a “system of false incentives” has led politicians in Washington to facilitate the fraud.

“Politicians in Washington have gotten away with measuring our self-worth and personal value by how much of other people’s money we give away,” he said. “Because of this, we measure effectiveness too often by how much money goes out the door, as opposed to is it going to where it was intended.”

“We need action, and I just hope we got the guts to do it,” Burchett said, claiming the real answer is the Department of Justice. “We can pass tough laws, but I don’t have the ability to put anybody in handcuffs.”

“We don’t have the ability to prosecute anybody,” Gill reiterated. But he said their task force does have the power of investigating.

“We can go through committees like the Judiciary Committee, put them under oath,” he continued. “We can request subpoena documents and information, which we’re doing right now, we can issue criminal referrals, so we can do all of the work that sort of builds a case for DOJ or somebody to take up, and that’s work that we should be doing.”