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Arizona Rep. Andy Biggs ripped into Democratic officials this week, saying congressional oversight will have to “bring in Tim Walz” and his aides to answer tough questions about the alleged Minnesota fraud. Biggs told Newsmax the scale of the shortages and whistleblower complaints demand a federal reckoning, not spin from party operatives.
Federal prosecutors now say the problem is not a few bad apples but an industrial-scale theft that could amount to half of $18 billion spent across 14 at-risk Medicaid and social-service programs. That’s not hyperbole — it’s a warning from the U.S. attorney’s office that hardworking Americans’ tax dollars have been siphoned off on a massive scale.
Minnesota’s Department of Human Services even terminated the Housing Stabilization Services program after finding it “extremely vulnerable to fraud,” halting payments to dozens of providers and flagging scores of suspicious companies. When your state program explodes from a few million dollars to hundreds of millions in payouts virtually overnight, that’s a red flag politicians can’t paper over.
Worse still, investigative reporting and law enforcement sources say some of the laundered money was funneled through hawala networks and may have ended up enriching al-Shabaab abroad, a terrifying national-security implication that should unite every American against waste and terror financing. If even a sliver of these allegations proves true, the consequences go far beyond politics — they reach the security of our homeland and the safety of American families.
Republicans like Biggs are right to demand hearings, subpoenas, and real accountability rather than lectures from Democrats who reflexively defend identity politics over justice. For too long, the left has treated every scandal connected to immigrant communities as off-limits; that approach protects criminals and betrays taxpayers who pay the bills.
This is about restoring integrity to programs meant to help the vulnerable, not demonizing an entire community — it’s about prosecuting fraudsters, blocking foreign terror financing, and making sure benefits go to Americans who truly need them. The Treasury has even opened probes into related tax and transfer activity, underscoring how serious federal scrutiny has become.
Hardworking Americans deserve leaders who will defend their money and their security, not politicos who cover up corruption to score woke points. It’s time for bold action: rigorous oversight, stripped-down welfare loopholes, and prosecutions where evidence exists so that Minnesota — and the rest of the country — can stop being a magnet for fraud and start serving its citizens again.
