"There are 30 whistleblowers who have given letters to this committee on the record saying they have been subject to intimidation by your administration because they were trying to stop the fraud in Minnesota," Rep. Byron Donalds said.
Gov. Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison faced blistering questions from the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday during a congressional hearing examining massive fraud tied to federally funded programs in Minnesota.
But while Republicans focused on the fraud itself, Democrats repeatedly used their time to pivot to Operation Metro Surge and immigration enforcement.
Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, opened the questioning by zeroing in on Walz’s past claim that a Ramsey County judge forced the Minnesota Department of Education to resume payments to Feeding Our Future despite red flags.
“That is false. Judge Guthmann never ordered the Department of Education to resume payments to Feeding Our Future in April 2021, or at any other time,” Jordan said. “So either you’re lying or the court’s lying. I’m just asking you — which one is it?”
Walz responded that the state’s attorneys interpreted the judge’s ruling differently.
“To the best of my knowledge, the attorneys at the Department of Education interpreted that differently,” Walz said.
Jordan also cited comments from fraud investigator Kayseh Magan, a Somali American who previously worked in the Minnesota Attorney General’s Office.
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