Urges JD Vance to Investigate Omar’s Citizenship with Anti Fraud Task Force: “She Married Her Brother. That Means She’s Here Illegally!”
President Trump slammed the nation of Somalia and Somali Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), noting that she “married her brother” and is “here illegally” while signing an executive order to establish the nation’s “first ever” task force to investigate fraud in federally administered housing, food, medical care, and cash assistance programs.
The task force will serve to “advise the President and coordinate government-wide efforts to combat widespread fraud, waste, and abuse in Federal benefit programs.”
Chaired by Vice President JD Vance, with Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson as Vice Chairman, “the Task Force will coordinate measures to improve eligibility verification, implement pre-payment controls, detect high-risk fraud trends, and disrupt and dismantle fraud networks and the mechanisms through which fraud is committed,” according to the order. “The Task Force will also coordinate development of minimum anti-fraud requirements to prevent exploitation of taxpayer-funded benefits, including proof of identity and documentation requirements, risk controls, and audit and remedial actions, while each member agency’ works to develop a measurable implementation plan.”
The order also highlights the massive “organized ring involving Somali immigrants” in Minnesota through programs like Feeding Our Future, noting that “There is strong reason to believe similar vulnerabilities exist in California, Illinois, New York, Maine, and Colorado, where insufficient safeguards and weak oversight increase the risk of large-scale fraud.”
“Somalia’s a Third World, maybe a fourth world nation, one of the worst, one of the most dangerous,” Trump said. “They don’t have anything. They don’t have councils, they don’t have government, they don’t have police. They shoot each other all over the place.”
While highlighting the estimated $19 billion in Somali fraud, Trump described Ilhan Omar as “one of the ringleaders,” while calling for her to be removed from the country. “I hope this is part of it, but she married her brother, supposedly. I mean, there’s a lot of documentation, that means she’s here illegally, and she’s a congresswoman, and I hope you’re going to be looking at that, or somebody is all right?” he told Vance.
As written in the order, “In January 2026, Vice President JD Vance announced a new division at the Department of Justice dedicated to national fraud enforcement.”