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Published On: Wed, Feb 4th, 2026

Trump: “If We Find The Fraud In This Country, You’ll Have A Balanced Budget Without Even Cutting Anything”

President Donald Trump talked about the sanctuary city status and the fraud in the city of Minneapolis after a display of enthusiasm for ICE from Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) in the Oval Office on Tuesday.

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: It’s a sanctuary for criminals, that’s who it is. They could make our lives so much easier. All they have to do is hand over their criminals, hand over people that came into our country illegally that are murderers, that came out of jails, that came out of mental institutions, that are drug dealers. I don’t, I can’t believe in Minnesota that they want to have murderers walking all over the streets. I just don’t believe it. Maybe somebody says it’s good, I don’t think it’s good politics. I think it’s really bad. The other thing we can’t lose sight of is you probably have in Minnesota, and it’s worse in some places like California, $ 19 billion in fraud. And we’re going to find out, you know, we have, we’re very deep into that investigation. But we’re not going to forget that. A lot of people think that a lot of this nonsense that’s going on is to try and, you know, hide what’s going on with respect to the fraud. They have 19, at least $ 19 billion. You know, you’re hearing nine. Now I’m hearing it’s 19 and it’s probably much more. So it’s, you know, they talk about incompetence. I think it’s not incompetence. I think it’s just pure fraud. These are dishonest people. They’re bad people. I think they hate our country. And we’re going to get to the bottom of it. But don’t let this hide the fact that you have tremendous fraud. And, you know, if we find the fraud in this country, you’ll have a balanced budget without even cutting anything. You’ll literally have a balanced budget. Yeah, please.

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