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The House Oversight Committee is ramping up its probe into Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz<\/a> as Republican lawmakers say the scale of the state\u2019s exploding fraud schemes draw questions about whether top officials should have been able to detect and stop them ahead of time.\u00a0<\/p>\n

To Rep. Pete Stauber, R-Minn., the fraud schemes coming from his state are so numerous and so costly that he believes they represent either “incompetence or dereliction of duty.”<\/p>\n

“Well, with the magnitude of the fraud, I find it really almost impossible that the governor or his staff and the attorney general didn’t know,” Stauber said. “And the Minnesota taxpayers are paying for it.”<\/p>\n

DAVID MARCUS: WHITE GUILT, APATHY FUEL MASSIVE CORRUPTION IN MINNESOTA<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Oversight Chairman James Comer,<\/a> R-Ky., told Fox News Digital he had a high level of confidence that the committee would find out whether the governor\u2019s office should have been aware of the mountain of fraud and whether the state\u2019s climbing losses could have been prevented, citing whistleblowers’ testimony he hopes to confirm.<\/p>\n

“We want to know how much fraud. Is it still ongoing? Were people aware [and] turned a blind eye? That\u2019s pretty much the purpose of our investigation,” Comer said on Friday.<\/p>\n

The House Oversight Committee launched its investigation earlier this month after recent reports revealed that the state had been hemorrhaging funds through fraud schemes in its social benefit programs.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The most prominent example, the Feeding Our Future scheme,<\/a> resulted in a $250 million loss when fraudsters received payments from the state for services that went unfulfilled, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ).<\/p>\n

But the documented problems stretch well beyond the one example.<\/p>\n

Notably, the state had to shutter<\/a> its housing assistance program after 77 housing providers were discontinued due to “credible allegations of fraud” uncovered by the FBI in 2025. Similarly, the state\u2019s Medicaid costs covering autism-related services have grown exponentially. According to<\/a> the Minnesota Reformer, payments for the state\u2019s autism program went from $6 million to over $190 million since 2018.<\/p>\n

Stauber said the widespread fraud had climbed into the “billions.” It remains unclear, however, how much money the state has lost to fraud in recent years.<\/p>\n

Although the schemes all look slightly different, Comer said they have one underlying question: Was Walz aware?\u00a0<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s going to be a pretty comprehensive investigation,” Comer said of efforts to answer that question. “We\u2019ve gotten off to a pretty good start because we have some whistleblowers.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Comer said the whistleblowers told the committee that members inside the governor\u2019s office had been made aware of the fraud but that it had largely gone unheeded.<\/p>\n

“They’re alleging that they made the governor and the attorney general aware a long time ago, and they did nothing about it. And it\u2019s been an ongoing problem.” \u00a0<\/p>\n

OMAR ACCUSED BY GOP OPPONENT OF OPENING UP THE DOOR TO MASSIVE MINNEAPOLIS FRAUD: ‘DEEP, DEEP TIES’<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

He said the committee would send investigators to Minnesota in the near future but didn’t give a timeline for how long he expected the investigation to take. Comer also declined to say exactly how many whistleblowers had spoken with the committee so far.<\/p>\n

“Multiple,” Comer said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

When asked about the committee\u2019s investigation and whether Walz\u2019s office would comply with committee requests, the governor\u2019s office said yes.<\/p>\n

“We look forward to working together. While the governor has been working to ensure fraudsters go to prison, the president has been letting them out,” Walz\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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