Washington Examiner columnist Joe Concha said the allegations of fraud within Minnesota’s social services programs under Democratic Gov. Tim Walz are “simultaneously sick and … brazen.”
Federal prosecutors charged dozens of people, many of whom were Somali asylum-seekers, in Minnesota on charges of defrauding taxpayers of millions of dollars through government assistance programs intended to care for autistic children and feed hungry children.
“When Walz was asked about this on another weekend, on another network this week, he didn’t take responsibility for it; instead, he played the race card,” Concha said on Fox Business’s Varney & Co. “I mean, we might as well call Minnesota Mogadishu [Somalia’s capital] at this point.”
Concha questioned whether former President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice was aware of the alleged fraud in Minnesota.
“Were they protecting Tim Walz? [former Vice President] Kamala Harris’s running-mate,” Concha said. “Either way, the Trump DOJ has now jumped in and exposed this, and I have a feeling we’re going to learn a lot more bad stuff by the time this investigation is over.”
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced on Monday that his department will launch an investigation into the alleged Minnesota fraud scheme under Walz. The House Oversight Committee began an inquiry into Walz’s alleged awareness and complicity in the scheme on Wednesday.
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Concha discussed the Washington Post’s recent opinion piece that criticized Walz for not acknowledging the “downsides” of too much welfare, highlighting that the paper’s editorial board has never endorsed a Republican candidate for president.
“If the Washington Post is now going after Tim Walz, you’re right, they wouldn’t have printed that a year ago because maybe there was an election to be won, but they’ve also gone more to the center,” he said.