Ron DeSantis: “The federal government can stop the remittances to Somalia…”

“I mean, that's. Isn't that what we want to do? But we've shown that that can be successful. But a state cannot do what the federal government can do. I mean, The federal government can stop the remittances to Somalia tomorrow. They could. Congress could get that done so easily. And just think about it. The reason they're committing the fraud is because they want to send the money back.” (35:07–35:11)

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