House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) announced that the Committee will hold a hearing centered on the fraud scandal plaguing Minnesota. Governor Tim Walz (D) and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison will testify on the matte in February.
“Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison have either been asleep at the wheel or complicit in a massive fraud involving taxpayer dollars in Minnesota’s social services programs. American taxpayers demand and deserve accountability for the theft of their hard-earned money,” Comer said in a statement. “The U.S. Department of Justice is actively investigating, prosecuting, and charging fraudsters who have stolen billions from taxpayers, and Congress has a duty to conduct rigorous oversight of this heist and enact stronger safeguards to prevent fraud in taxpayer-funded programs, as well as strong sanctions to hold offenders accountable.”
A hearing featuring Minnesota state lawmakers is scheduled for January 7. Reps. Kristin Robbins, Walter Hudson, and Marion Rarick, all Republicans, will speak to the Committee.
Walz’s office told Fox News that they are “always happy to work with Congress, though this committee has a track record of holding circus hearings that have nothing to do with the issue at hand. While the Governor has been working to ensure fraudsters go to prison, the President has been selling pardons to let them out.”
Journalist Nick Shirley exposed the Quality “Learing” Center in a viral video shared on X last week. The media attention comes amid a sweeping federal investigation into alleged fraud in Minnesota’s taxpayer-funded day care and social service programs.
