Vice President JD Vance criticized Minnesota Democratic Gov. Tim Walz on Wednesday for taking credit for the Trump administration’s sweeping fraud crackdown in the North Star State.
“This is like the arsonist trying to claim credit for the work of the fire department,” Vance said of Walz’s comments about Tuesday’s FBI raids on day care centers in Minnesota.
“We really did not get much help at all from the governor’s office,” the vice president told Fox News host Will Cain.
“The fact that they turned a blind eye towards it for so long is a scandal, [but] we’re also going to find out whether it was criminal,” he vowed.
Vance noted that the Trump administration would “absolutely” seek to denaturalize people who committed immigration fraud to gain legal status.
In a statement, a spokesperson for Vance said the federal fraud task force “has had unprecedented success in eliminating fraud across the United States.”
“The President’s War on Fraud is working, as the task force and the entire Trump Administration continue to work tirelessly to expose Fraudsters who have scammed the American people out of billions of dollars,” the spokesperson added.