A group of Minnesota Republican state legislators is calling for Governor Tim Walz to resign as his administration has been rocked by the exposure of rampant fraud within the Somali community that has gone on during his watch.
Things have rapidly gone south for a man who just last year was chosen as the Democratic Party’s vice presidential nominee, with the latest blow to Walz’s political prospects being a viral video allegedly showing Somali-run daycare centers that appear to be scams, on top of the already staggering amount of Medicaid and other fraud that is being exposed.
In a Monday statement, the GOP lawmakers said that Walz must go and that it’s time for new leadership at the top that can deliver the accountability that has been sorely lacking under the two-term governor.
GOP State Senators Bill Lieske and Nathan Wesenberg, along with Representatives Marj Fogelman, Drew Roach, and Mike Wiener, cited Article 8, Section 6 of the Minnesota Constitution, “which lists serious malfeasance or nonfeasance in the performance of official duties as grounds for recalling executive or inferior officers.”
Accountability is key as an elected official. It is past due time for Governor Walz to take accountability for his actions and resign. https://t.co/cqvr7TtuHv
— Drew Roach (@DrewRoachMN) December 29, 2025
“Minnesotans have been watching the fraud crisis get worse and worse for years. It has gone on long enough. This is not about politics or stunts, and we do not make a call like this lightly. The office of the governor deserves respect, and we have tried to give Gov. Walz time to act,” the statement began.
“But leadership means doing the right thing even when it is difficult, which is why we are calling on Gov. Walz to resign,” the lawmakers continued. “We are talking about billions of dollars in fraud that should have gone to vulnerable Minnesotans. The red flags were everywhere. Yet, year after year, the fraud kept growing, and year after year, nothing changed.”
“People in our districts raise this issue constantly. It is the number one issue we hear about. They want to know why nobody is being held accountable. They want to know when somebody is going to fix it. And they want to know why the governor isn’t resigning,” the Republicans said. “What we are seeing from the governor is what nonfeasance looks like. When a governor fails to do what he is required to do, when he watches a crisis spiral out of control and does nothing to stop it, that is nonfeasance. The governor had a duty to oversee his administration and protect these programs. He failed. There needs to be consequences.”
“For the good of the state, Gov. Walz should step aside. Minnesota needs accountability, a reset, and new leadership that can get us back on the right track,” the state lawmakers concluded.
When asked about the call for “Tampon Tim” to hang it up, Minnesota House Speaker Lisa Demuth explained that taxpayers are “fed up” with the lack of leadership from his miserable administration.
A group of Minnesota House and Senate Republicans is calling for Gov. Tim Walz to resign amid allegations of significant Medicaid fraud during his administration.
When Minnesota House Speaker Lisa Demuth was asked if the governor should resign, she pointed to oversight failures… pic.twitter.com/iG8E8HaAwb
— FOX 9 (@FOX9) December 29, 2025
“There’s almost $9 billion of suspected fraud, much of that is actually proven, and there’s been convictions,” she said, referring to the federal charges against alleged scammers. “To have a governor in his second term that has allowed this to go on under his watch, under his administration for this long, taxpayers are fed up with this.”
“They’re frustrated, we’ve watched our state budget explode, we’ve watched all of our taxes and fees go up, and Minnesota taxpayers across the state are done with funding fraud here in the state, that’s the frustration that we are hearing from across the state, and as you saw, in the letter today,” Demuth added.
In their statement, the GOP legislators said “they are not launching a recall effort against Gov. Tim Walz but believe this constitutional standard also supports resignation.”
The embattled Democrat governor responded to the calls for accountability by passing the buck to the legislature.
“The Governor has worked for years to crack down on fraud and asked the state legislature for more authority to take aggressive action,” Walz’s office said in a Monday statement.
“He has strengthened oversight – including launching investigations into these specific facilities, one of which was already closed. He has hired an outside firm to audit payments to high-risk programs, shut down the Housing Stabilization Services program entirely, announced a new statewide program integrity director, and supported criminal prosecutions,” the statement said.
The viral daycare video has been noticed by the Trump administration, with FBI Director Kash Patel calling the alleged fraud “just the tip of a very large iceberg.”
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