Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) grilled Governor Tim Walz (D-MN) during a contentious Capitol Hill hearing addressing the rampant fraud in his state, much of which has been tied to the Somali immigrant community.
Mace specifically asked Walz a series of questions about fraud linked to funding designated to help children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder — and the Minnesota governor, combative at times, struggled to answer some of the most basic questions about the people in his state.
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Tim Walz can’t, or won’t, answer simple questions about the absolutely massive increase in Autism program spending in his state.
These numbers have been circulating publicly for some time.
This is just insane. What a fraud. <a href="https://t.co/eF2nWEL7Le">pic.twitter.com/eF2nWEL7Le</a>
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Mace began by asking Walz how much the state of Minnesota had spent on autism programs in 2017. Walz at first said that he did not know, and when Mace challenged him directly — asking whether he&#8217;d prepared for the hearing ahead of time — he argued that he did not know because he was not the governor in 2017.
&#8220;We&#8217;re gonna do some Minnesota math today,&#8221; Mace said, and she eventually revealed that Minnesota had spent approximately $1,000,000 on autism programs in 2017.
&#8220;How much money was spent on autism in Minnesota in 2024?&#8221; Mace asked then.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t have the number in front of me,&#8221; Walz replied. As governor I don&#8217;t —&#8221;
&#8220;Were you governor in 2024?&#8221; Mace asked.
&#8220;I was, but I&#8217;m not the —&#8221;
&#8220;Okay, so your excuse before, you didn&#8217;t know what 2017 autism numbers were because you were not governor, and today you can&#8217;t answer the numbers about 2024 as governor and you still said you prepared for this hearing today, it&#8217;s unbelievable,&#8221; Mace said. &#8220;$343,000,000 was spent in 2024. What percent increase is that, from one million to 343 million?&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m not here to be your prop, go ahead and tell me,&#8221; Walz snapped.
&#8220;Are you governor of Minnesota or not?&#8221; Mace asked.
&#8220;Yes, I am,&#8221; Walz replied.
&#8220;Well, when I&#8217;m governor of South Carolina, you can sure as hell bet that I&#8217;m going to know the math,&#8221; Mace shot back, explaining that it those numbers represented a 34,200% increase.
&#8220;Do you know the number of children in Minnesota?&#8221; she asked.
&#8220;I know that Minnesota ranked as a top three state for children in the last year,&#8221; Walz said.
Mace asked what the state&#8217;s total population was, and Walz knew the answer to that question: &#8220;5.7 million.&#8221;
&#8220;What is the total population of children in Minnesota?&#8221; Mace followed up.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t have the number in front of me,&#8221; Walz said.
&#8220;Are you governor of Minnesota?&#8221; Mace repeated. &#8220;And you don&#8217;t know the number of children residing in Minnesota? &#8230; As governor, I expect you to know this information. Thank God you&#8217;re not the vice president.&#8221;

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Fraudsters are robbing America blind. The federal government <a href="https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-24-105833">estimates</a> fraud costs a family of four roughly $4,000 each year.
Fraud is the inevitable byproduct of a bloated bureaucracy that spends <a href="https://www.bea.gov/data/government/receipts-and-expenditures">$11 trillion annually</a> at the federal, state, and local levels. To conduct an audit, we would need an army of indefatigable accountants. In the past, we couldn’t raise such an army, but now we can. We simply need competent leadership in Congress to deploy it.
This system could have saved <a href="https://apnews.com/article/minnesota-fraud-feeding-our-future-medicaid-9911799c0d0149a64a042abed095be57">billions</a> in Minnesota alone. Instead of sending millions in taxpayer dollars to the <a href="https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/dr-oz-on-medicaid-fraud-fact-finding-mission-in-minnesota-2b-could-be-at-stake/">400 supposed</a> healthcare providers huddled in an industrial building in St. Paul, Minnesota, our government could have sent an FBI team. They would have stopped payments to “<a href="https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/dozens-charged-in-250-million-covid-fraud-scheme-092122">Feeding Our Future</a>,” where fraudsters faked child rosters, randomly assigned ages, and reported meal volumes wildly inconsistent with site capacity — the kind of fraud that is easy for an AI to catch.
The technical solution is to use AI to spot and block fraudulent government payments, such as those to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/minneapolis-quality-learing-center-is-officially-closed-state-records-show">fake daycares</a> in Minnesota. Your bank already does it. If you live in Minneapolis and your card is used in Florida, your bank will deny the transaction and call you within minutes. By contrast, the government’s optional payment screening service has been branded <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/M-25-32-Preventing-Improper-Payments-and-Protecting-Privacy-Through-Do-Not-Pay.pdf">a failure</a>.
Modern AI tools can detect fraud patterns that fool humans, such as multiple nonprofits with the same address, beneficiaries, board members, and employees. These tools automatically flag anomalies like spikes in billing and implausible service delivery. When something is suspicious, these tools can stop the payment for further investigation by a human team.
Congress should require all agencies to run any payment over $10,000 through a fraud detection system and change the law to allow the government to pause suspicious payments. AI can adjudicate most cases quickly. Narrow exceptions should be made for cases where immediate payments are critical to national security. The system can exist within the Treasury, Government Accountability Office, or even report directly to Congress. Regardless of where it lives, we need an elite team of data scientists, engineers, and investigators who oversee our all-important tax dollars competently and ethically.
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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) and state Attorney General Keith Ellison (D) testify on alleged misuse of federal funds in Minnesota at <a href="https://twitter.com/GOPoversight?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GOPoversight</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/OversightDems?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@OversightDems</a> – LIVE on C-SPAN3 <a href="https://t.co/LkMJ0ZVExm">https://t.co/LkMJ0ZVExm</a>
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But tech is not enough. We need the legal tools to stop fraudulent payments immediately. Would you keep paying the bill on a stolen credit card for years? That’s what the government does. When agencies suspect fraud, they often continue paying fraudsters until a court declares the “vendor” to be violating their contract. “Feeding Our Future” received $250 million of taxpayer money for years after the first <a href="https://www.governing.com/management-and-administration/minnesotas-inadequate-oversight-led-to-250m-meal-program-fraud?utm_source=chatgpt.com">allegations</a> of fraud. When Minnesota’s Department of Education slowed the payments on its suspicions, “Feeding Our Future” sued; the judge <a href="https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/judge-rebukes-walz-assertion-that-he-ordered-mde-to-resume-payments-to-feeding-our-future/?utm_source=chatgpt.com">questioned</a> whether the agency had followed the required administrative procedures, and payments to fraudsters resumed. This illustrates a general point — fraudsters know that even credible red flags rarely trigger an immediate stop-pay and criminal prosecution, because agencies lack <a href="https://www.governing.com/management-and-administration/minnesotas-inadequate-oversight-led-to-250m-meal-program-fraud?utm_source=chatgpt.com">investigatory tools</a> and fear losing in court.
Congress, however, lacks technical competence and leadership. While half of all senators are <a href="https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R48535">lawyers</a> by training, there is only <a href="https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R48535">one senator</a> with an engineering degree. The Senate is not representative of America’s immense economic growth, driven in large part by technologists. It’s time for us to harness that technology to make the government serve us better.
Our prosperity and freedom are at stake. Polarization and growing mistrust in our institutions, coupled with enormous peacetime deficits, are a combustible mix. We can quell it with technology and competent leadership. Stamping out large-scale fraud could cut our deficit by as much as a quarter. Addressing waste as well could eliminate our deficit entirely. Only when families feel the benefits of our prosperity in their own budgets — through lower taxes, cheaper childcare, and healthcare — will the political pressure cool and give us space to confront our most serious challenges as a nation.
Two hundred and fifty years ago, Americans laid the foundation of the most successful democratic government in the world. Our government grew with our prosperity — eventually making full oversight impossible by human effort alone. Today, we have the technology to make our government the most upright and efficient in the world. We need leaders who are capable and willing to use it to protect our taxes, our freedoms, and our future. 

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Mark York is a Harvard-trained computer scientist and Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in Minnesota. 

The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Minnesota Governor Tim Walz ended his campaign for re-election, a stunning reversal and likely the end of the political career of a man who many pundits projected would be the Democratic nominee for president as early as 2028.
But if a once-popular governor can be toppled by widespread welfare fraud, where does that leave other Democratic presidential hopefuls?
The revelations of staggering levels of fraud in Minnesota — and Walz’s preemptive exit from the big stage — should send a chill down the spines of Gavin Newsom, Josh Shapiro, and JB Pritzker, who are likely sitting on powder kegs of fraud themselves. What are the odds that Tim Walz is an outlier among blue-state governors with the exact same political philosophy and ideology? Unlikely.
Federal prosecutors allege more than <a href="https://minnesotareformer.com/2025/12/18/u-s-attorney-fraud-likely-exceeds-9-billion-in-minnesota-run-medicaid-services/">$9 billion</a> in Minnesota Medicaid dollars were stolen by scammers primarily from the state’s Somali community, an enormous sum, equivalent to roughly three-quarters of <a href="https://nbs.gov.so/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Somalia-GDP-2024-release-text-v3-2025.pdf">Somalia’s GDP</a>. Investigations are ongoing, and the real total loss may be even higher.
Welfare programs are an enormous money pot that inevitably attracts scammers. And the bigger the pot, the bigger the potential payoff for thieves. With state budgets the size of those in California, Illinois, and New York, not to mention Democrats’ general posture toward welfare expansion, it would be truly shocking if there were less fraud in those larger states.
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins requested data from the states on who is receiving food stamps early last year, including identifying information like Social Security numbers and, importantly, immigration status. The Trump administration has previously discovered that more than one million people were illegally receiving <a href="https://www.hhs.gov/press-room/cms-doge-identify-wasteful-duplicate-medicaid-enrollments.html">Medicaid in multiple states</a> — and it’s likely the same with food stamps and SNAP benefits. Individual states are not able to detect this kind of fraud: only the federal government can find it by comparing recipients across the states.
But Democrats have refused to help the Trump administration find fraud. In fact, <a href="https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-sues-trump-administration-over-illegal-demands-states">in July</a>, 22 blue states sued to block the Trump administration from requiring the data. Democrats want the federal government to pay for food stamps without knowing who is receiving them.
Tim Walz and the other 21 governors have all seen the information they are currently hiding from the feds. In the absence of transparency from these elected officials, federal investigators, journalists, and citizens of goodwill all need to keep digging until the American people get the truth and law enforcement can bring fraudsters to justice.
Food stamp fraud is a known fact. According to the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO), more than <a href="https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-25-107753.pdf">$10 billion</a> in the food stamp program is wasted every year — <a href="https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/food-nutrition-assistance/supplemental-nutrition-assistance-program-snap/key-statistics-and-research">more than 10%</a> of the program. Some blue states have even higher error rates: Massachusetts and D.C. overpay by an average of more than <a href="https://fns-prod.azureedge.us/sites/default/files/resource-files/snap-fy24QC-PER.pdf">13%</a> — and New York and New Jersey aren’t far behind at more than 12%. That means that one out of every eight dollars in these states is wasted — and this is just the waste, fraud, and abuse that we know about.
Nearly <a href="https://thefga.org/research/categorical-eligibility-in-food-stamps-is-fraud-by-design/">every Democrat-run state</a> in America also uses an accounting gimmick called Broad-Based Categorical Eligibility, or BBCE, to hide its own erroneous payments from the federal government. BBCE means that if someone receives a non-monetary TANF benefit, like a brochure or the number to a welfare agency hotline, the state assumes that they qualify for food stamps, too, without bothering to check their assets to see if they are actually eligible. The result is an explosion in the welfare state, costing taxpayers more than <a href="https://thefga.org/solution/promoting-work-over-welfare/bbce/">$11 billion per year</a>, with the benefits going to people with liquid assets well above the limits set in federal law.
The good news is that, thanks to a new law signed by President Trump, states with high error rates can no longer waste federal tax dollars with impunity. States with food stamp payment error rates over <a href="https://www.sas.com/en_us/news/press-releases/2025/november/payment-integrity-food-assistance.html">six percent</a> are now legally required to start paying back a small part of the cost of the program. Left-wing Massachusetts could owe more than <a href="https://www.wwlp.com/news/massachusetts/understaffed-dta-faces-steep-snap-penalty-risks/">$250 million per year</a>. Deep-blue Maryland may be on the hook for more than <a href="https://marylandmatters.org/2025/12/03/maryland-may-face-more-than-300-million-in-new-snap-costs-due-to-high-payment-error/">$300 million</a>. This is a great first step, and not only will it help repay federal taxpayers, but it will also encourage states to finally get their act together and stop wasting money.
As the old story goes, criminals rob banks “because that’s where the money is.” And there are no bigger pots of money than the federal treasury and the bloated budgets of blue states. Attorney General Bondi and investigators across the country are beginning to look at where the real money is — and the fallout could bring down the entire top-tier slate of 2028 Democratic presidential nominees.
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Adam Gibbs is the communications director for the Foundation for Government Accountability.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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President Donald Trump ended temporary protected status for thousands of Somalis living in the United States, ordering them to leave the country by March 17.
&#8220;Temporary means temporary,&#8221; Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem told Fox News Digital Tuesday. &#8220;Country conditions in Somalia have improved to the point that it no longer meets the law’s requirement for Temporary Protected Status.&#8221;
&#8220;Further, allowing Somali nationals to remain temporarily in the United States is contrary to our national interests,&#8221; Noem said. &#8220;We are putting Americans first.&#8221;
Roughly 2,471 Somali nationals currently live in the U.S. under temporary protected status, according to Fox.
An estimated 600 of them are living in Minnesota.
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DHS is ENDING Temporary Protected Status for Somalians in the United States.
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There are also 1,383 Somalis living in the country with pending applications for temporary protected status, the outlet reported.
If Somalis who are subject to the order refuse to leave the United States by March, they will likely become targets of federal immigration authorities.
The policy change comes just one day after Minneapolis and St. Paul announced a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/live-updates-ice-agent-fatally-shoots-agitator-as-chaos-erupts-in-minneapolis?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Daily+Wire&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=2&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=LIVE+UPDATES%3A+Trump+Deploys+More+Feds+To+Minnesota+As+Dems+File+Lawsuit+Against+Admin">lawsuit</a> against the Trump administration over its mass deportation sweeps in Minnesota.
The lawsuit seeks to “end the unlawful, unprecedented surge of the federal law enforcement agents into Minnesota,” state Attorney General Keith Ellison said in a press conference on Monday.
“The obvious targeting of Minnesota for our diversity, for our democracy, and our differences of opinion with the federal government is a violation of the Constitution and of federal law,” he said.
The feud between the Trump administration and officials in Minnesota boiled over after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent fatally shot 37-year-old Renee Good, who was reportedly tied to a radical ICE Watch organization tracking the agency&#8217;s whereabouts.
The president has accused Good of committing an act of &#8220;domestic terrorism&#8221; after she was seen in footage blocking a road the ICE agents were trying to pass through before she ignored their commands to get out of the car. Good was then seen putting her car in reverse and backing up, before driving forward.
One video appears to show the agent taking a hit as he stood in front of the vehicle before shots were fired.
The Trump administration has also zeroed in on Minnesota&#8217;s Somali community after federal authorities revealed last month that an estimated <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trumps-ice-director-blames-sanctuary-laws-for-minnesota-fraud">$9 billion</a> in taxpayer funds may have been stolen as part of a massive fraud campaign that’s largely been tied to the population.
The fraudsters are accused of funneling cash from state welfare programs through fake nonprofits and shell companies back to Somalia — and even Somali terrorist group Al-Shabaab, City Journal reported last month.

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The situation in Minnesota continues to roil the waters.
We are looking at the very real possibility of a standoff between the state government led by Governor Tim Walz — the failed vice presidential candidate who just had to step away from a third-term run in Minnesota because of the allegations of fraud — and the federal government.
On Thursday, Walz — who is in a world of hurt politically right now because of the Somali fraud scandal — compared this moment to the Civil War. Apparently, it is now the Civil War if you send ICE to enforce arrest warrants against criminals in this country.
Walz <a href="https://x.com/theblaze/status/2009324277053755577?s=20">stated</a>:
<blockquote>When things looked really bleak it was Minnesota&#8217;s first that held that line for the nation on that July 3rd, 1863. And I think now we may be in that moment; that the nation is looking to us to hold the line on democracy, to hold the line on decency, to hold the line on accountability, and more than that, to rise up as neighbors and simply say, we can look out for one another. We can have differences. But we proved to the world going on 250 years that our democracy could hold. It feels to me like we&#8217;re at one of those inflection points.</blockquote>
I&#8217;ve said many, many times that when you have high-level politicians talking this way, it is truly bad for the country. When you say we are at the point where we are going to go to war with one another and a civil war is about to break out, and it&#8217;s the end of the country, these statements turn into self-perpetuating prophecies.
That’s because the more people believe they can&#8217;t get along with their neighbors, that there is no basis for a common Americanism, the more they are likely to see each other as enemies and not political opponents.
Walz <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdZR7zeWX5Y">also said</a>:
<blockquote>I&#8217;d ask everyone to pause for a moment of silence to remember Renee Good, also to remember all that&#8217;s good and right about this nation. And, I&#8217;m going to ask folks if they can, I&#8217;d ask employers to give their people some space. I&#8217;d ask each and everyone to find a way to contribute in your community. Might be shoveling your neighbor&#8217;s walk. It might be being at a food bank.
It might be pausing to talk to someone you haven&#8217;t talked to before, but to show the goodness, to rise up to make sure that we&#8217;re being very, very clear about this, that we expect our constitutional rights to be respected, that law enforcement is local, that we expect accountability of our elected leaders and that we are not going to go quietly and we&#8217;re not going to give up on those things that matter so much to us. And chief amongst those is human dignity, respect, rule of law. All of the things that we know make this country great. </blockquote>
That’s bizarre, Orwellian language. Walz moves very quickly from “we should take this moment of silence, to go work at a food bank or talk to someone you&#8217;ve never talked to before,” to “we need to respect rule of law” while holding a moment of silence for a person who, at the very least, was involved in obstruction of the performance of law. When he says that law enforcement must be local, what he means is that federal law enforcement shouldn&#8217;t do its job.
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And when he says that we should “rise up,” when he says that we have an obligation to stand up for our constitutional rights — you do not have a constitutional right to be in this country illegally, nor do you have a constitutional right to thwart federal law enforcement’s pursuit of criminal illegal immigrants and their deportation. You do not have the right to do any of those things.
All of this is part and parcel, of course, of Tim Walz&#8217;s broader agenda, which is to label ICE as the Gestapo, which is what he did last year.
You wonder why people are out there confronting ICE? When you put people in a moral position where they feel they must confront federal law enforcement and do it over and over and over again, the basic rule is: the more people are confronting law enforcement, the more there will be bad situations that emerge from those confrontations.
This is just the way the world works.
Listening to Tim Walz talk about morality is astonishing, considering that just last year <a href="https://x.com/cspan/status/1933545681580409048">he said</a> that China — a true authoritarian state — might be the global moral authority.
He said: 
<blockquote>Who holds the moral authority? Who holds the ability to do that, because we are not seen as a neutral actor and we maybe never were. I don&#8217;t want to tell anybody that; I think there&#8217;s a lot of people say you always lean one way in this, but I think there was at least an attempt to be somewhat of the arbitrator in this. We saw President Carter do it with Begin and Sadat. We&#8217;ve had certain wins along the way that were actually mutually beneficial both ways. Now I ask who that is. And I mean consistently over and over again, we&#8217;re going to have to face the reality. It might be the Chinese.</blockquote>
Unbelievable. That person is the person who&#8217;s now the moral authority talking about authoritarianism? Remember, he presided over the riots in 2020 that shut down a city in his state because he was unable to handle basic law enforcement functions in his state.
The reason that Tim Walz is going so hard here is because he recently had to step away from running for a third-term because of the fraud in his state — a fraud scandal largely emanating from the Somali community, which, of course, is the community at issue in these immigration raids from ICE.
For Walz to preach about morality and the rule of law, he has to ignore his own history.
And he’s doing just that.

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A new position will be created by the Justice Department to target fraud in Minnesota and across the country, Vice President JD Vance said Thursday.
Vance said that a new assistant attorney general position out of the Justice Department would be formed to focus on fraud in Minnesota. The announcement comes as there have been allegations of widespread fraud in Minnesota from fake daycare centers to other welfare fraud schemes.
“To make sure that we prosecute the bad guys and do it as swiftly and efficiently as possible &#8230; we are creating a new assistant attorney general position who will have nationwide jurisdiction over the issue of fraud,” Vance said at a press briefing. “Now, of course, that person&#8217;s efforts will start and focus primarily in Minnesota, but it is going to be a nationwide effort, because unfortunately, the American people have been defrauded in a very nationwide way.”
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🚨 <a href="https://twitter.com/VP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@VP</a> announces the Trump Administration will create a new Assistant Attorney General position who will have nationwide jurisdiction over the issue of fraud — focusing first primarily in Minnesota, then expanding nationwide. <a href="https://t.co/QnU1pti7kM">pic.twitter.com/QnU1pti7kM</a>
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Vance said the new position was part of the administration’s interagency efforts to go after fraud he said was present in states like California, Minnesota, and Ohio.
“If you&#8217;re a young parent struggling to afford childcare in the United States of America, there are programs that we have to make it easier for your kids to get in daycare, for your kids to get in preschool,” Vance said. “Those programs should go to American citizens, not be defrauded by Somali immigrants, and others.”
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) said he welcomed the announcement from Vance.
&#8220;Pres Trump/VP Vance’s announcement of a new Asst Atty General at Dept of Justice focused on fraud is GR8 NEWS 4 the American taxpayer Once Pres Trump selects his nominee I look fwd 2 overseeing their nomination,&#8221; Grassley <a href="https://x.com/ChuckGrassley/status/2009336588908765616">posted</a> on X.
Allegations of fraud in Minnesota, especially perpetrated by Somali immigrants in Minneapolis, have been the focus of the Trump administration in recent weeks, with federal law enforcement surging to the area. Last week, the Department of Health and Human Services paused all childcare payments to the state of Minnesota while it investigated allegations that millions of taxpayer dollars have been funneled to fraudulent daycares across the state throughout the past ten years.
Small Business Administration Administrator Kelly Loeffler <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-admin-uncovers-another-400-million-in-suspected-minnesota-fraud?author=Leif+Le+Mahieu&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=12&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Trump+Admin+Uncovers+Another+%24400+Million+In+Suspected+Minnesota+Fraud">said</a> last week that her team had identified around $400 million in loans that may have been fraudulently obtained through the Paycheck Protection Program and the Economic Injury Disaster Loan program. As a result, 6,900 borrowers in Minnesota were suspended from participating in SBA loan programs and could face further punishment.
In a larger move, the department also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-admin-freezes-welfare-funds-to-five-blue-states-over-fraud-concerns?author=Leif+Le+Mahieu&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=6&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Trump+Admin+Freezes+Welfare+Funds+To+Five+Blue+States+Over+Fraud+Concerns">froze funding</a> for programs that provide childcare and food assistance in California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota, and New York as officials probe whether the benefits are being illegally funneled to non-citizens. The specific programs being halted in those states are the Child Care Development Fund, the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, and the Social Services Block Grant program.

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House Majority Whip Tom Emmer on Wednesday tore into his state&#8217;s governor, Tim Walz, saying that the Democrat &#8220;should resign&#8221; and would likely &#8220;leave office in cuffs&#8221; if he chose not to do so.
Emmer made his comments on the latest episode of the Republican Study Committee&#8217;s &#8220;Right to the Point&#8221; podcast, where he was joined by his fellow Minnesota Republican Reps. Brad Finstad and Michelle Fischbach about the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/live-updates-ice-agent-fatally-shoots-agitator-as-chaos-erupts-in-minneapolis">still-unfolding situation</a> in their home state. The trio called out the leadership in their state, saying that whether they were complicit in the rampant fraud or had simply failed to deal with it, the full price of their actions had fallen on the people of Minnesota.
Among the issues on the table were the dozens already tried and convicted for fraud schemes connected to Feeding Our Future, many of them part of the Somali immigrant community; the additional fraud being investigated in the daycare and healthcare systems, also connected to the Somalis; and Immigration and Customs Enforcement&#8217;s (ICE) efforts to crack down on illegal immigration in the state.
Emmer began by noting his sadness that so many different and massive fraud schemes — which a number of people have known about for years — were able to flourish in his state, and he credited President Donald Trump for finally forcing it into the headlines.
&#8220;The three of us and those that are testifying today have been calling out this fraud for years, and nobody would report it,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Joe Thompson, the first Assistant U.S. Attorney for Minnesota, estimates the total fraud could amount to $9 billion.&#8221;
Emmer referenced Nick Shirley, the independent journalist who brought the fraud into the spotlight, saying that even though Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison (D-MN) had been in office for seven years, Shirley had been able to root out more fraud in a day than they had since they were elected.
Finstad noted that Emmer and Fischbach had co-signed a letter he sent to Walz in 2022, calling on him to address the situation.
&#8220;&#8216;This fraud has been going on in Minnesota for years. It&#8217;s time to get, you know, put a stop to it,'&#8221; Finstad said, paraphrasing the letter.
&#8220;This is criminal on all levels, you know, to no response. That was three or four years ago. And you know, this goes back to 2014, 2015, when we, you know, the news media was at that time covering when there was literal duffel bags of cash going through the Minneapolis Airport to Somalia. So fast forward. You know, we&#8217;ve been pounding this drum forever, and to this day, he has not responded to those letters or those calls for us to demand accountability.&#8221;
Emmer went on to say that while he was sad to see what was happening to his state, he was also angry at leadership for failing to step up and do the right thing.
&#8220;It hurts. I&#8217;m mad. I am very angry about this, because this didn&#8217;t have to be this way,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I mean, nobody seems to want to talk about the fact that we had a Democrat attorney general by the name of Laurie Swanson, who was literally investigating and prosecuting Somali daycare fraud back in 2017 and -18, nobody wants to talk about.&#8221;
But as Emmer noted, her investigations were cut short when she lost the gubernatorial primary to Walz — and then Ellison was elected to succeed her as attorney general.
&#8220;And what was his first action? His first action was to create a rule that there will be no more investigations without Keith Ellison&#8217;s express approval, and since then, there have been no investigations,&#8221; he explained.
&#8220;It is not racist to call out criminal activity,&#8221; Emmer continued. &#8220;It is not xenophobic to identify the group of people who are involved, and in this case, 90% of the people who have been charged in the largest pandemic fraud case in the country, the $250 million Feeding Our Future fraud scandal are from the Somali community.&#8221;
Emmer then turned on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/oddsmaker-tim-walz-is-30x-more-likely-to-be-charged-with-a-crime-than-be-the-next-president">Walz,</a> who just recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tim-walz-drops-out-of-minnesota-governors-race-amid-fraud-concerns">suspended his reelection campaign</a> amid the growing fraud scandal: &#8220;Tim Walz, by the way, this thing is growing. I&#8217;m not going to be Minnesota Nice. I&#8217;m going to be Minnesota Real. Tim Walz should resign, and if he doesn&#8217;t resign, he&#8217;s probably going to leave the office in cuffs.&#8221;

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Democrat witness Brendan Ballou claimed during a Wednesday hearing that the influx of Somali immigrants made his home state of Minnesota &#8220;stronger&#8221; – but Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX) brought data that said the exact opposite.
During the hearing — which was scheduled as part of an investigation into widespread fraud in Minnesota that has been linked to the Somali immigrant community — Gill posed a direct question to the former federal prosecutor, asking whether Somalis made the state weaker or stronger.
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&#8220;Does large-scale Somali immigration make Minnesota stronger or weaker?&#8221; Gill asked.
&#8220;Certainly stronger,&#8221; Ballou said.
&#8220;Certainly stronger,&#8221; Gill repeated. &#8220;Do you know what percentage of Somali-headed households in Minnesota are on food stamps?&#8221;
Ballou did not.
&#8220;Fifty-four percent,&#8221; Gill replied. &#8220;Do you know what that number is for native Minnesota-headed households?&#8221;
Ballou protested, &#8220;Well, to be clear, a majority of the —&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s seven percent,&#8221; Gill continued. &#8220;There&#8217;s a big difference between fifty-four percent and seven percent, is there not?&#8221;
&#8220;Excuse me, sir, could I answer the question?&#8221; Ballou asked.
&#8220;Let me move on, we&#8217;ve got a lot of questions here,&#8221; Gill said, asking, &#8220;What percentage of Somali-headed households are on Medicaid?&#8221;
Ballou did not know.
&#8220;It&#8217;s seventy-three percent,&#8221; Gill said. &#8220;Do you know what that number is for Minnesota native households?&#8221;
Ballou once again objected to the terminology, but did not answer the question.
&#8220;The number is eighteen percent,&#8221; Gill replied. &#8220;That&#8217;s quite an astounding difference, I think we would agree.&#8221;
Ballou continued to protest about Gill&#8217;s use of the term &#8220;native Minnesotan,&#8221; but made no move to supply answers to Gill&#8217;s questions.
&#8220;Let me ask you one more, and then we can go into that,&#8221; Gill said. &#8220;What percentage of Somali-headed households are on welfare in general?&#8221;
&#8220;I don&#8217;t know,&#8221; Ballou conceded.
&#8220;It&#8217;s eighty-one percent. What about — let me just ask you, after ten years of being in the United States, what percentage of Somali immigrant households are on — continue to be on welfare?&#8221; Gill pressed again, and again Ballou did not know the answer until Gill provided it: &#8220;The number is seventy-eight percent. So even after ten years, seventy-eight percent of Somali immigrant households continue to be on welfare. Do you know what that number is for native Minnesota-headed households? Non-Somali immigrant-headed households.&#8221;
Ballou protested again, claiming, &#8220;You&#8217;re using the phrase &#8216;native Minnesotans,&#8217; the majority of Somali Minnesotans are as Minnesotan as any of us, they were born in the United States —&#8221;
&#8220;Nevertheless, the welfare usage is astoundingly different,&#8221; Gill declared.

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Independent journalist Nick Shirley says he&#8217;s not worried about critics slinging nasty allegations his way. &#8220;I don’t drink alcohol, I don’t do drugs, I’m a virgin,&#8221; he declared, adding, &#8220;I don’t have sex with random girls.&#8221;
Shirley made the comments during a recent appearance on the &#8220;PBD Podcast&#8221; with host Patrick Bet David, where the two discussed the fallout from Shirley&#8217;s now-viral video exposing rampant fraud in the Minnesota daycare system.
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&#8220;What sucks for them is they’re never going to be able to get me. I don’t drink alcohol, I don’t do drugs, I’m a virgin &#8230; I’m religious. I believe in God &#8230; I have nothing to hide.&#8221;<a href="https://twitter.com/DailyCaller?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DailyCaller</a> <a href="https://t.co/3x259r6Em7">pic.twitter.com/3x259r6Em7</a>
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&#8220;These people are like — I saw something — someone&#8217;s calling me, like, a PDF, they&#8217;re saying all these crazy allegations, I&#8217;m like wait,&#8221; Shirley began. &#8220;What sucks for them is they’re never gonna be able to get me. I don’t drink alcohol, I don’t do drugs, I’m a virgin. I don’t have sex with random girls. You’re not gonna catch me on those sexual allegation charges.&#8221;
&#8220;I don’t have any addictions, I don’t have any vices. So what are these people gonna get me for?&#8221; he asked. &#8220;They’re done. I’m religious, I believe in God. I’m everything they hate, so what are they going to get me for? They can’t get me for anything. Like, they’re gonna come after me for my personality or for a stunt I did in high school maybe? That’s maybe the best thing they could get me for, is for Nick Shirley being a young, reckless teenager, just like any other YouTube prankster. Go ahead, I don’t care. Like, I have nothing to hide.&#8221;
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&#8220;I literally have nothing to hide, so like, I am going to become their worst enemy, and you’re going to start seeing them using the slandering tactics and it’s just going to be comical because they can’t get anything on me,&#8221; he predicted.
Shirley <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nick-shirley-says-threats-keep-pouring-in-after-viral-fraud-expose-youre-going-to-be-kirked">also commented</a> during the same podcast appearance about the threats he&#8217;s received since his video went viral, saying that he&#8217;d been told he was going to be &#8220;Kirked&#8221; — in reference to the assassinated Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk — and that members of his family had been doxxed and flooded with calls from media outlets.

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Independent journalist Nick Shirley said that the death threats have poured in since his viral video exposed what appears to be rampant fraud in Minnesota daycares, particularly within the Somali community, and that even his little sister is fielding calls from journalists.
Shirley told &#8220;PBD Podcast&#8221; host Patrick Bet David that he&#8217;s been threatened on numerous occasions — and has even been warned that he would be &#8220;Kirked,&#8221; in an obvious reference to the assassinated Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk.
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&#8220;They’re saying, &#8216;You’re going to be Kirked &#8230; you’ll be the next Kirk.&#8217; And it’s just like, are you kidding me?&#8221;<a href="https://twitter.com/DailyCaller?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DailyCaller</a> <a href="https://t.co/CPF7KxRso8">pic.twitter.com/CPF7KxRso8</a>
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Shirley said that he&#8217;d received threats both &#8220;in person and online,&#8221; adding, &#8220;Like &#8230; Kirked. They’re saying, &#8216;You’re going to be Kirked &#8230; you’ll be the next Kirk.&#8217; And it’s just like, are you kidding me?&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s not even like — I hate what&#8217;s happening right now,&#8221; Shirley continued. &#8220;I feel bad for my family, honestly, because it&#8217;s like, we didn&#8217;t do anything wrong, and yet you guys are coming after me like I&#8217;m some sort of villain.&#8221;
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Shirley went on to explain that even his little sister was getting calls from journalists attempting to investigate him — and that members of his family had been doxxed by &#8220;some news in India.&#8221;
&#8220;It was really weird. And I haven&#8217;t even told my dad about that, because I just don&#8217;t even want to bother him about it,&#8221; Shirley added. &#8220;It&#8217;s just like, are you guys kidding me? Why are you guys coming after somebody for going against fraud? Like, I didn&#8217;t make this a right or left issue, I just showed you guys that fraud was happening, and now you guys are coming after me. You&#8217;re saying, you know, I&#8217;ll be the next Kirk, and you&#8217;re literally stopping at intersections and coming after me, trying to attack me. Why are you so evil? What&#8217;s wrong with you? Why are you defending fraud?&#8221;
Legacy media outlets have addressed Shirley&#8217;s reporting, primarily in an effort to downplay it or discredit his efforts as &#8220;amateur.&#8221;
POLITICO reporter <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/politico-silent-as-reporter-suggests-journalists-investigating-minneapolis-fraud-can-be-legally-shot">Josh Gerstein</a> suggested that &#8220;amateur&#8221; reporters knocking on doors at daycares would ultimately lead to a dangerous situation if the people inside were armed.
CNN correspondent Whitney Wild made a few phone calls to the daycare centers Shirley had visited, and reported that the person who answered the phone at the one center where she was able to get a response had told her that they were a legitimate business.
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A Minneapolis daycare center run by Somali Americans said that its facility was broken into and vandalized early Tuesday morning.
Nasrulah Mohamed, the manager of Nokomis DayCare Center, said at a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4gzj7T5jVs">press conference</a> on Wednesday that &#8220;important documents,&#8221; such as employee documentation and children&#8217;s enrollment papers, were stolen. The daycare blamed the recent viral video from independent journalist Nick Shirley for inspiring the break-in. In Shirley&#8217;s video, the journalist went to numerous daycares in the Minneapolis area that receive government funding, but the facilities appeared closed in the middle of the day, sparking accusations of fraud.
&#8220;This is devastating news, and we don&#8217;t know why this is targeting our Somali community, as one video made by a specific individual made this all happen,&#8221; Mohamed said. &#8220;We&#8217;ve been receiving hateful messages through our voicemails, threatening us in the past couple of days, including one that happened yesterday morning after the break-in.&#8221;
Nokomis DayCare Center was not featured in Shirley&#8217;s video, but many daycares and learning centers linked to the Somali community have been accused of committing fraud following Shirley&#8217;s revelations.
The Minneapolis Police Department confirmed that Nokomis reported a break-in on Tuesday morning and informed police about the items allegedly stolen, Fox 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul <a href="https://www.fox9.com/news/somali-day-care-minneapolis-vandalized-dec-2025">reported</a>. The police department is investigating.
Mohamed was joined by a group of supporters at the press conference, some of whom held signs, including one that read, &#8220;Racism has no place in childcare.&#8221; Many people were skeptical of the daycare&#8217;s claims of a break-in that was motivated by Shirley&#8217;s video, including President Donald Trump, who commented on the story, <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115815655902009476">saying</a>, &#8220;A total FRAUD!&#8221;
The Trump administration <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/feds-conduct-door-to-door-checks-at-suspected-minneapolis-fraud-sites">deployed</a> federal agents to Minneapolis to look into the fraud allegations and also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-admin-freezes-all-child-care-payments-to-minnesota-amid-daycare-fraud-scandal">froze</a> funding for all child care payments to Minnesota. The Minnesota Department of Children, Youth, and Families said that each of the daycares featured in Shirley&#8217;s video was recently visited by state inspectors for annual licensing reviews. The department added that it would follow up to investigate claims of fraud at the daycares.
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&#8220;We have high-quality daycares, and this is very sad news that one individual who made a false claim about fraud that is happening in daycares can get everyone else to come and do this to us,&#8221; Mohamed said.
The manager of a Minneapolis daycare that was featured in Shirley&#8217;s video also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/theres-no-fraud-manager-of-misspelled-quality-learing-center-responds-to-fraud-claims">shot back</a> at the fraud accusations and said that Shirley’s reporting was an attempt to “put out a certain message about a certain group [of people].” Ibrahim Ali, the manager of the daycare that misspelled its sign, Quality &#8220;Learing&#8221; Center, told reporters earlier this week, “Kids come to us, clients come to us, their parents come to us – they’re here daily, they leave on time, they come on time. There is no fraud going on whatsoever.”
Minnesota&#8217;s social programs have been at the center of fraud investigations. One of the recent fraud scandals involved the “Feeding Our Future” program, which received federal funds and claimed to distribute meals to hungry children during the COVID pandemic but allegedly never did so. The vast majority of those charged in the fraud scheme were of Somali descent.

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