House Report Alleges Walz Administration Ignored Billions in Fraud Losses

By John Solomon | Just the News

Vice President JD Vance has referred evidence gathered by Congress that Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison failed to act against mass welfare fraud in their state to the Justice Department for possible criminal investigate.

Vance announced the criminal referral in a social media post late Monday in which he raised concerns that Walz’s administration also tried to retaliate against state workers who blew the whistle on the welfare fraud scams in Minnesota, estimated by the House Oversight Committee to have cost taxpayers more than $9 billion.

“I’ve referred these allegations to DOJ’s new Fraud Division for criminal investigation,” Vance wrote on X. “Minnesota state officials are not above the law, and if they facilitated fraud, lied under oath about what they knew, or harassed and intimidated whistleblowers, they must face justice.”

The vice president’s action came hours after the Oversight Committee released a bombshell report concluding that Walz and Ellison knew about widespread taxpayer fraud in the state’s welfare programs as early as spring 2019, but took no action and instead let the state retaliate against workers who tried to expose the abuses.

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