In a stunning display of liberal hypocrisy and failed leadership, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has chosen to attack President Donald Trump rather than take responsibility for the massive fraud scandal unfolding under his own watch. For years, Minnesota has been the epicenter of a brazen theft of taxpayer dollars, with Somali healthcare and daycare scammers potentially stealing more than $9 billion in hard-earned American money.
Yet, when the Trump administration finally steps in to protect the public treasury, Governor Walz has the audacity to point fingers and play political games.
Instead of thanking the federal government for its decisive action, Walz immediately launched a partisan broadside. “We’ve spent years cracking down on fraud – referring cases to law enforcement, shutting down and auditing high-risk programs,” Walz said, in a statement that rings utterly hollow given the scale of the theft. The reality is that his administration’s so-called “crackdown” has been a catastrophic failure, allowing fraud to metastasize into a multi-billion-dollar criminal enterprise on Minnesota soil. His empty rhetoric is a desperate attempt to cover for a legacy of negligence and appeasement.
We’ve spent years cracking down on fraud – referring cases to law enforcement, shutting down and auditing high-risk programs.
Trump keeps letting fraudsters out of prison.
To the national news just now paying attention, here’s what we’ve done to stop it. pic.twitter.com/bgvKPxVxxm
— Tim Walz (@Tim_Walz) December 30, 2025
In a move that exposes his true priorities, Walz then absurdly attempted to blame President Trump for the criminals themselves. “Trump keeps letting fraudsters out of prison,” Walz said. This is a blatant and dishonest deflection from the core issue: the systemic fraud that flourished under the permissive policies of Walz and his Democrat allies. It is the height of irony for a governor who has presided over one of the largest fraud schemes in state history to criticize the one president with the courage to stop the bleeding.
This is Trump’s long game.
We’ve spent years cracking down on fraudsters. It’s a serious issue – but this has been his plan all along.
He’s politicizing the issue to defund programs that help Minnesotans. https://t.co/7ByWjeXxu0
— Governor Tim Walz (@GovTimWalz) December 31, 2025
The decisive action from the Trump administration speaks volumes. The Health and Human Services Department, under strong leadership, announced it is freezing all childcare payments to Minnesota amid the allegations of widespread fraud. HHS Deputy Secretary Jim O’Neill delivered the necessary message with clarity: “We have turned off the money spigot.” This is what real accountability looks like. While Walz offered excuses, the Trump administration took three concrete actions to safeguard American taxpayers: mandating that all payments nationwide require justification and photo evidence before money is sent to a state, identifying all individuals in whistleblower Nick Shirley’s video and demanding audits, and launching a dedicated fraud reporting hotline.
Faced with this demonstration of competent governance, Governor Walz could only double down on his partisan attacks, revealing his desperation. “This is Trump’s long game,” Walz said. “We’ve spent years cracking down on fraudsters. It’s a serious issue – but this has been his plan all along.” He then revealed his true concern is not for the defrauded taxpayers, but for the perpetual government spending, adding, “He’s politicizing the issue to defund programs that help Minnesotans.” This is the classic liberal playbook: when caught enabling massive fraud, accuse those who stop it of having a political motive and of hurting the very people your policies failed to protect. The only person “politicizing” this issue is Governor Walz, who is trying to distract from his own administration’s glaring incompetence and the culture of corruption it permitted.
h/t: Steadfast and Loyal
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