REP TOM EMMER: Walz oversaw billions in stolen taxpayer money — now comes accountability

$9 billion.

That is the estimated amount of payer dollars stolen via fraud schemes successful Minnesota nether Governor Tim Walz’s watch. To marque matters worse, the U.S. Treasury Department uncovered that millions are being diverted to Somalia and, inevitably, landing successful the hands of Al-Shabaab terrorists.

Let’s bash a speedy recap of however we got here.

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Minnesota fraudsters, the vast majority of whom are Somali, applied for and received funds from assorted state-run payment programs to enactment their ain pockets and funnel wealth overseas. From COVID-era nutrient nutrition assistance meant for children, to housing, to fake autism centers, to bare daycares — Tim Walz allowed fraudsters to instrumentality vantage of hardworking taxpayers astatine each turn.

And these are conscionable the instances we cognize about.

Feeding Our Future: The Feeding Our Future nonprofit swindled $250 cardinal successful national funds meant to provender bare children during the pandemic, starring to the largest COVID-19 fraud strategy successful the country. 

78 criminals person been charged so far, 90 percent of whom are Somalis. One Minneapolis market store proprietor was charged with seeking $1 cardinal successful national nutrition funds and past utilizing that wealth to wage idiosyncratic expenses, including recognition paper bills.

Housing Stability Services Program: Before the programme went unrecorded successful 2020, officials pegged its yearly estimated terms tag astatine $2.6 million. By 2024, it had paid retired $100 cardinal successful claims, astir 10 times the archetypal cost. The Minnesota Department of Human Services terminated the programme astatine the extremity of October 2025 due to the fact that it was truthful fraudulent, and 8 radical person been indicted.

Autism: One Somali woman pled guilty after stealing $14 cardinal from creating a fake autism center. She and her co-conspirators went astir the Somali assemblage recruiting kids for autism services, careless of whether they really had autism. Because the obstruction for introduction is virtually nonexistent for payment successful Tim Walz’s Minnesota, these fraudulent "autism services" past received payer dollars. By the clip the fraud strategy was exposed, 1 successful 16 Somali four-year-olds successful Minnesota had reportedly been diagnosed with autism — a complaint much than triple the authorities average. Autism claims to Medicaid skyrocketed from $3 cardinal successful 2018 to astir $400 cardinal successful 2023. Approximately 85 autism clinics are reported to beryllium nether investigation.

Daycares: $4 cardinal worthy of payer dollars went to an acquisition halfway that can’t adjacent spell "learning" correctly connected its beforehand door. It was also reported that this aforesaid halfway made quality for collecting 95 violations from the authorities quality services bureau betwixt 2019 and 2023. A national journalist, Nick Shirley, found daycare centers receiving millions successful payer dollars, sitting bare with nary children successful them.

The fraud has been truthful brazen and widespread, it’s intolerable the Walz medication didn’t notice, including his lieutenant politician and lawyer general. I, on with my chap Minnesota Republicans, person been sounding the alarm connected this contented for much than 3 years, but we were met with thing but lies and inaction by Minnesota’s Democrat senators, the Biden administration, and their allies successful the media.

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Secretaries Noem, Bessent, Duffy, Turner, Rollins, McMahon, Chavez-DeRemer, FBI Director Patel, Administrator Loeffler, Dr. Oz, Stephen Miller, Border Czar Tom Homan and much person all raised this contented and launched investigations. My friend, Chairman James Comer of the House Oversight Committee, also announced two hearings successful the upcoming weeks with Minnesota authorities officials, Governor Tim Walz, and Attorney General Keith Ellison to assistance exposure failures, place solutions and present accountability.

Last week, the Small Business Administration (SBA) announced that they banned Minnesota fraudsters from each SBA indebtedness programs. The Department of Health and Human Services recently froze federal kid attraction backing for the authorities of Minnesota owed to fraud. I americium besides looking into drafting authorities that would denaturalize and deport immoderate Somali who engaged successful fraud.

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Let maine beryllium clear: Tim Walz dropping retired of the Minnesota governor’s contention does not exempt him oregon members of his medication from accountability. Those who were criminally complicit request to beryllium carried distant successful handcuffs. The Somalis who engaged successful fraud request to beryllium denaturalized and deported. And Congress indispensable travel up with authorities to guarantee this level of fraud tin ne'er hap again.

The American radical are outraged and rightfully so. Minnesotans merit better. Now, acknowledgment to President Trump, accountability is yet here.