When Steve Bannon calls for a 10-year moratorium on immigration, it’s not a smartly placed soundbite; it’s an American First policy line in the sand. On Monday’s WarRoom, joined by Mike Lindell, Rosemary Jenks, and Dave Brat, Bannon laid out the stakes voters face going into the 2026 midterm elections: corruption, taxpayer betrayal, and a rigged system that rewards fraud while punishing citizens. The conversation was about government accountability.
WHAT YOU NEED TO SEE: America’s immigration and welfare systems have become a crime syndicate, and Bannon’s moratorium is the only policy strict enough to rip out the rot.
Bannon didn’t mince words on Monday with his panel of guests:
“We need a 10-year moratorium, no immigration whatsoever, for any reason, until we get this mess sorted out.”
His argument is rooted in a courageous recent exposé by Nick Shirley about Minnesota’s $9 billion welfare fraud scandal and federal Medicaid payouts now suspected of massive corruption. As Bannon said bluntly, “They’re laughing in your face.”
Shirley’s investigations went mega-viral in December:
The Minnesota Scandal: A Blueprint for Systemic Corruption
Bannon opened his Monday morning program by highlighting Minnesota as “the tip of the spear and the festering sword.” There, federal investigators now suspect that as much as $18 billion in Medicaid funds were siphoned off through fake daycare and welfare programs, shell companies tied to organized fraud networks.
Enter Mike Lindell, the MN Republican governor candidate. Lindell described how corruption has “infiltrated every single one of these government services :Medicare, child care, housing, autism services.” He told Bannon, “There’s nobody in these daycares, nobody in these houses, and they’re still getting paid.”
Lindell promised, “If I’m governor, I’ll hold every department accountable. I’ll be the most transparent governor this country’s ever seen.” He connected the scandal to Governor Tim Walz, Attorney General Keith Ellison, and a state media that’s “totally complicit.”
The Populist Reformers: Jenks and Lindell on Offense
While Lindell focused on state reform on the program, Rosemary Jenks of the Immigration Accountability Project is driving the national conversation. Her point is sharp: “Every part of our system needs to be torn down and rebuilt to stop this. And the first step is a moratorium to get our house in order.”
Jenks argues that mass immigration has been weaponized not for diversity or compassion, but for votes and dependency. “We’ve been importing people from cultures where government corruption is normal,” she told Bannon. “Of course they see our welfare system as a jackpot that’s how they were trained to survive.”
She’s not wrong. The New York Times and The Hill now admit billions in fraud tied to immigration-linked nonprofits, even as legacy media downplays the scope. Bannon tied this to the bigger pattern: “This isn’t chaos. It’s a system NGOs, blue-state politicians, and bureaucrats working together to keep the money and the votes flowing.”
Brat, Jenks and Bannon: The Economic Case
Former congressman Dave Brat joined the show’s panel discussion and brought the economic lens, saying we need to tighten the labor market and raise wages. Jenks agreed and added: “Look back at history we shut off immigration in the 1920s, and by the 1950s we had the biggest middle class growth in history. Prosperity follows limits.”
Bannon connected the dots, focusing on the country’s working men and women, saying that America’s working class has been deliberately undercut first by exporting jobs, now by importing cheap labor. “They’re indentured servants,” he said of the H-1B visa workers. “The oligarchs love them because higher margins, higher stock prices. You’re not competing with talent. You’re competing with servitude.”
The Policy Reset: Ten Years to Rebuild the Republic
What Bannon, Jenks, and Lindell are proposing is a national reset. A 10-year moratorium would pause all immigration, including visas and asylum, while restoring election integrity, investigating fraud, and rebuilding trust.
“This isn’t about hate,” Bannon said. “It’s about sovereignty. American citizens who work their ass off deserve a government that works for them, not one that launders their taxes through welfare scams.”
In a political climate where Congress tiptoes around words like “moratorium,” the populist-Conservatives are saying what millions already feel: shut it all down and start over.
“We can decide as a nation what immigration policy serves our interests,” Jenks concluded. “But nobody’s ever asked us. That ends now.”
Check out this clip for more from Rosemary Jenks: