Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (D) is facing a congressional probe by the House Oversight Committee following a fraud scandal.
Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) told The New York Post that his panel “will conduct a thorough investigation into Governor Walz’s failure to safeguard taxpayer dollars” surrounding an aid program for children.
“Because of Governor Walz’s negligence, criminals — including Somali terrorists — stole nearly $1 billion from the program while children suffered,” Comer stated.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent similarly stated that the Treasury is “investigating allegations that under the feckless mismanagement of the Biden Administration and Governor Tim Walz, hardworking Minnesotans’ tax dollars may have been diverted to the terrorist organization Al-Shabaab.”
“Thanks to the leadership of @POTUS @realDonaldTrump, we are acting fast to ensure Americans’ taxes are not funding acts of global terror,” he wrote on X. “We will share our findings as our investigation continues.”
The investigations come as President Trump declared on November 21 that Minnesota is a “hub of fraudulent money laundering activity.”
“I am, as President of the United States, hereby terminating, effective immediately, the Temporary Protected Status (TPS Program) for Somalis in Minnesota. Somali gangs are terrorizing the people of that great State, and BILLIONS of Dollars are missing. Send them back to where they came from. It’s OVER!” he wrote on Truth Social.
The White House released an article on the fraud activity, stating that all enforcement on the matter “has been at the federal — not state — level.”
“In fact, the state’s cowardly Democrat officials were ‘reluctant’ to act — ‘tolerating, if not tacitly allowing, the fraud’ and ignoring whistleblowers — to avoid ‘political backlash among the Somali community’ and accusations of racism,” the White House said, quoting news stories.
