FTC chair Ferguson.....
Ferguson, who is vice chair of the task force, cast the issue of fraud as a dire crisis facing the country and said it “shreds the social trust on which these programs and our entire nation depend.”
“This fraud crisis is thus existential," he said. “If we fail to address it, the fabric of our nation will swiftly unravel.”
VP J.D. Vance.....
“This is not just the theft of the American people’s money,” Vance said. “It is also the theft of critical services that the American people rely on.”
Tim Walz, governor.....
Tim Walz, a Democrat who faced Vance as a vice presidential candidate in 2024, has called it a “campaign of retribution” and said the Trump administration was “weaponizing the entirety of the federal government to punish blue states like Minnesota.”