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.
