Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) hit House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) in an X post responding to the committee’s hearing announcement on the Minnesota fraud scandal.
The House Oversight Committee announced its first hearings into the Minnesota day care fraud controversy, which will include testimony from state Reps. Kristin Robbins, Walter Hudson, and Marion Rarick, all of whom are Republicans. Comer has invited Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) and state Attorney General Keith Ellison to testify on Feb. 10.
“James thinks Somali is the person that picks out his Sauvignon Blanc,” Moskowitz wrote on X in response.
The Florida Democrat is well-known for his humorous social media posts, often attempting to zing Comer. He sat on the committee for the previous Congress, a committee often known for its theatrics and antics.
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Comer’s announcement came after the committee expanded its investigation, calling on state officials to testify in closed-door, transcribed interviews, while also requesting suspicious activity reports from Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, along with a staff-level briefing from the Justice Department.
The alleged fraud, of which the majority of those charged are Somali immigrants, targeted multiple government social services programs in Minnesota, including one intended to feed children during the COVID-19 pandemic under Walz’s leadership, with federal prosecutors saying billions of taxpayer dollars could have been stolen. Other programs in the state meant to support providers in assisting people at risk of homelessness, and another meant to provide therapy for autistic children, were also purportedly defrauded.