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Gov. Tim Walz took a beating on Capitol Hill as House Republicans zeroed in on one of the most politically damaging facts in Minnesota’s sprawling fraud scandal: his administration restarted payments to Feeding Our Future, then blamed the court for it, only to be publicly corrected by the court itself. The confrontation became one of the sharpest moments in the House Oversight Committee’s latest hearing on fraud and misuse of federal funds in Minnesota.
Chairman James Comer opened the hearing by accusing Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison of presiding over “one of the most extensive breakdowns of oversight this Committee has ever examined,” saying whistleblowers raised alarms for years while billions in taxpayer dollars kept flowing out the door. Comer’s office said federal prosecutors estimate up to $9 billion may have been stolen from 14 Medicaid programs in Minnesota, and the committee’s interim report alleges senior state officials were warned repeatedly and failed to act.
But the exchange that really cut through came when Rep. Jim Jordan put Walz on the spot over Feeding Our Future, the pandemic-era food aid scandal that federal prosecutors say turned into a roughly $250 million fraud scheme. Jordan pressed Walz on why payments were restarted after fraud concerns had already been raised, and why Walz publicly suggested the state’s hand had been forced by a judge. That line has long been a problem for Walz, because the judge flatly said it was false…
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