The Minnesota ‘Walls Are Caving In’ On Tim Walz
Mayors across Minnesota are scrambling to maintain essential services like police protection, infrastructure maintenance, and emergency response without bankrupting residents through property tax hikes.
(ZH) – House Oversight Chairman James Comer declared this week, “The walls are caving in on Tim Walz,” as a federal probe into Minnesota’s sprawling fraud scandal intensifies. Whistleblowers, mayors, and lawmakers now enter the fray, spotlighting waste in social programs that hammer everyday residents.
The fraud Comer described reaches far beyond accounting errors. Minnesota taxpayers now must endure cuts to basic services because billions of dollars earmarked for social programs vanished due to fraudulent schemes, most of which are tied to the state’s Somali community. The scale of the fraud has forced state officials to slash budgets and shift costs to local governments, leaving mayors across Minnesota scrambling to maintain essential services like police protection, infrastructure maintenance, and emergency response without bankrupting residents through property tax hikes.
The House Oversight Committee is coordinating with federal agencies and preparing subpoenas for records and testimony to trace the money and identify the culprits.
Comer stopped short of demanding Walz resign but made it clear that the governor cannot escape accountability. “He deserves due process, and we’re going to give him due process,” Comer said.
Walz, of course, isn’t happy about the federal investigations and insists he can
“This [was] on my watch,” Walz said last week. “I am accountable for this, and more importantly, I am the one that will fix it.”
Walz added, “Unlike the president, I’m governor now [and] whether these programs happen before we got here or afterwards, it doesn’t matter. We’re here now. We’re the ones fixing it. You have my guarantee on this, that I certainly will have this thing fixed.”
A Walz spokesperson dismissed the congressional probe as partisan theater designed to muzzle a vocal Trump critic. “This is clearly a coordinated political attack to try to silence one of the President’s most effective critics,” the spokesperson stated. “The Governor takes fraud seriously and wishes they would too.”
Comer, however, dismissed Walz’s suggestion that the Oversight Committee should step aside and let him investigate the fraud. “No one in America believes that. We are going to investigate this,” Comer said.
The scandal traces back to at least 2020 and involves fraudulent billing across numerous government programs, concentrated heavily but not exclusively within the Somali population. Federal prosecutors revealed that the Feeding Our Future case alone, which already resulted in charges against nearly 80 people, involved roughly $250 million in bogus claims for pandemic nutrition aid. Last week, prosecutors revealed the total fraud across Minnesota’s social services system could reach $9 billion or more.
Comer emphasized that successful congressional investigations depend on insiders willing to break ranks, and he now has them. “The key to a good congressional investigation is having whistleblowers. And, fortunately for us, we have some state employees who have bravely stepped forward. We’re going to get them under oath, and they’re going to tell us everything they know. And we’re going to go from there.”
The revolt against Walz extends beyond Washington. Nearly 100 Minnesota mayors delivered a stinging rebuke Monday in a letter to Walz and state legislative leaders, blaming fraud, reckless spending, and erratic fiscal management in St. Paul for crippling their cities. “Fraud, unchecked spending, and inconsistent fiscal management in St. Paul have trickled down to our cities,” the mayors wrote. “Our state owes it to our citizens to practice responsible fiscal management and to stop taxing our families, seniors, and businesses out of Minnesota.”
The mayors also pointed to Minnesota’s declining position in national economic rankings over the past six years, echoing a Minnesota Chamber of Commerce report that described the state’s trajectory as a wake-up call. Once boasting an $18 billion surplus under Walz’s watch, Minnesota now faces a projected $3 billion deficit for the 2028-29 budget cycle. This means that the mayors are now being forced to raise taxes, cut services, delay infrastructure projects, or stretch municipal employees even thinner.
With subpoenas imminent and state employees preparing to testify under oath, Walz is staring down a political reckoning that could permanently end his career. The investigation is tightening, the facts are coming to light, and the collapse of trust alone may prove impossible to overcome.
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