Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz may have believed his political embarrassment on the national stage was behind him after a lopsided election loss that left him isolated and weakened. But events unfolding back home suggest his problems are only beginning.
A sweeping fraud scandal has erupted across Minnesota’s government-run social service programs, and the numbers are staggering. Federal prosecutors now say the total losses could approach — or even exceed — $2 billion, a figure that places Minnesota at the center of what many are calling the largest public fraud crisis in the nation.
That is not a typo. Billion. With a “B.”
Republican lawmakers say they have been sounding the alarm for years, only to be ignored or sidelined by a Walz administration that appeared more interested in optics than accountability.
“Minnesota has an epidemic of fraud, as the rest of the nation is learning,” Republican state Sen. Michael Kreun told Fox News. “We’ve known here in Minnesota for quite some time that we’ve had a massive fraud problem. And it’s turning out that probably Minnesota is the epicenter of fraud in the United States right now.”
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