Full Hearing
🚨 We’re holding a hearing with Minnesota lawmakers who blew the whistle on MASSIVE FRAUD and Governor Tim Walz’s failure to stop it. Tune in as we expose the truth: https://t.co/2ZFhMfhj3w
— Oversight Committee (@GOPoversight) January 7, 2026
Highlights
🚨 Chairman Comer opens our hearing EXPOSING Minnesota fraud.@RepJamesComer: “Governor Tim Walz, Attorney General Keith Ellison, and Minnesota’s Democratic leadership have either been asleep at the wheel or complicit in these crimes.”
Time for accountability. pic.twitter.com/h5FU6CEFGK
— Oversight Committee (@GOPoversight) January 7, 2026
🚨FEAR OF RETALIATION
Here’s @MarionONeill1‘s opening statement to @GOPoversight, explaining why whistleblowers like those in @Minnesota_DHS “live in a constant state of fear of retaliation.”https://t.co/BTJmyXmnr5 pic.twitter.com/fVNa9OqbBu
— Tyler O’Neil (@Tyler2ONeil) January 7, 2026
WATCH: My opening testimony before the @GOPoversight Committee
“Tim Walz and the Democrats have repeatedly protected their political base at the expense of all Minnesotans.” pic.twitter.com/F4dcCCoPV5
— Kristin Robbins (@KRobbinsMN) January 7, 2026
🚨KEITH ELLISON FEEDING OUR FUTURE
Thanks to @JudiciaryGOP Chair @Jim_Jordan for highlighting before @GOPoversight the call in which Minnesota AG Keith Ellison said, “Let’s go fight” state agencies on behalf of Feeding Our Future fraudsters.
Fraudsters played the race card. https://t.co/D0gIz5lkCt pic.twitter.com/FvLgPRttpL
— Tyler O’Neil (@Tyler2ONeil) January 7, 2026
‼️ WATCH: Tim Walz KNEW ABOUT THE FRAUD in Minnesota from the very beginning and did NOTHING to stop it. @RepBrandonGill @GOPoversight pic.twitter.com/uzJ3LnLCa2
— House Republicans (@HouseGOP) January 7, 2026
Somali fraud is fraud.
It doesn’t matter who did it, folks need to be held accountable.
Maybe our Democratic colleagues on @GOPoversight will eventually lear pic.twitter.com/qh58NR5muP
— Rep. Pat Fallon (@RepPatFallon) January 7, 2026
🚨MN FRAUD WHISTLEBLOWER FIRED 🚨@GOPMajorityWhip Emmer reveals that a whistleblower was FIRED by the Walz Administration ONE DAY before he was scheduled to testify to expose the FRAUD! @GOPoversight pic.twitter.com/2TAQ4soAkN
— House Republicans (@HouseGOP) January 7, 2026
“You’re going to lose your job. You’re going to lose your home. They’ll track your children. You won’t be able to work anywhere Democrats control.”
– Minnesota State Rep. Marion Rarick speaks on the retaliation against whistleblowers exposing fraudIn response to our reporter… pic.twitter.com/fNZNwlSk23
— LindellTV (@RealLindellTV) January 7, 2026
SOMALI FRAUD: Gov Walz fired whistleblower one day before his fraud testimony. The program jumped from $2.6M to $161M with 90% suspected fraud.
Eric Rumdell was fired just 24 hours before he was set to testify about massive fraud in Minnesota’s Housing Stabilization Services… pic.twitter.com/aaOXoJI4nw
— @amuse (@amuse) January 7, 2026
REP JIM JORDAN: “Is it true back in March of 2021, the Minnesota Department of Education suspended payments to Feeding Our Future… And then a month later, they resumed payments. What caused them to change their mind?”
HON. JAMES HUDSON: “That’s correct… In my opinion, what… pic.twitter.com/yAexSolYXa
— Fox News (@FoxNews) January 7, 2026
🔥 @RepNancyMace GRILLS Democrat witness on Minnesota fraud—asks how much in fraud it would take to support deportations.
Rep. Mace: “Should Somalians who committed fraud be denaturalized and deported, Mr. Ballou?”
Witness: “I’m not sure that’s an appropriate question…” pic.twitter.com/UvlKkag6FE
— Oversight Committee (@GOPoversight) January 7, 2026
Minnesota congressman SLAMS Walz’s bureaucratic machine that’s hurting families.@RepFinstad: “We have daycares in southern Minnesota getting fined for leaving ChapStick on their office desk … They can find the time to do that, but they can’t find the $9 billion. Ridiculous.” pic.twitter.com/C0XNanqfFM
— Oversight Committee (@GOPoversight) January 7, 2026
Minnesota is just the tip of the iceberg.
The Biden Admin reported $250M in fraud. The reality? Over $9 BILLION.
Democrats are terrified of President Trump rooting out corruption because it exposes the criminal industry hiding in our social safety nets. They want dependency… pic.twitter.com/4qnIpV3Cjm
— Congressman William Timmons (@RepTimmons) January 7, 2026
We made the case before @GOPoversight today that @Tim_Walz and his Administration have willfully turned a blind eye to the massive fraud in Minnesota, despite YEARS of credible whistleblower reports & actual convictions. Accountability is starting. https://t.co/Kp51tEpKUv
— Kristin Robbins (@KRobbinsMN) January 7, 2026
Based on testimony today, I have enough evidence to believe both @GovTimWalz and @keithellison were knowingly complicit in a Somali fraud scheme in Minnesota.
Therefore I have referred them BOTH to the DOJ for criminal charges. May justice be swift. The American people are tired… pic.twitter.com/aEWM89vTj4
— Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (@RepLuna) January 7, 2026