In other words, if the state of California gives those food stamp benefits to an illegal alien, to a violent criminal, the federal government has no visibility. And sometimes the states themselves have no visibility. So we need to work with Congress and We need some legislation that would actually force some data sharing between the state governments and the federal governments. We need to know where your tax dollars are going. And if the state of California, the state of New York isn't going to tell us, we need Congress to force them to tell us. (33:42–33:51)
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Asserts the need for legislation to mandate data sharing between state and federal governments.
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