House Majority Whip Tom Emmer said Minnesota’s fellow blue states will be the next fronts in the Trump administration’s war on fraud.
As much as $9 billion in taxpayer funds may have been stolen from Minnesota’s social programs in schemes where the vast majority of those charged were of Somali descent, federal officials say. Emmer, who represents Minnesota’s 6th congressional district, spoke to the Daily Caller News Foundation after joining House Oversight Committee members Wednesday to grill Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison about their role in presiding over the theft of taxpayer funds intended for those in need.
“This should be a good message to every other state that has this type of failed leadership. The day is coming. You’re all going to be held accountable,” Emmer told the DCNF. “At the end of the day, these programs, they need to be viable for the people they were intended for, not the fraudsters.”
Just a week ahead of the hearing, Trump declared a “war on fraud” in his State of the Union address. He specifically singled out California, Massachusetts and Maine as having “even worse” rates of fraud than Minnesota, and appointed Vice President JD Vance to lead the effort. Maine, like Minnesota, also has a significant Somali population.
