Minnesota Governor Tim Walz is lashing out with his administration becoming further engulfed by an “industrial-scale fraud” scandal involving social services as more details emerge about the Somali swindlers who bilked taxpayers out of billions of dollars.
With his political future at stake and huge amounts of federal dollars at stake with the government potentially set to pull funding of programs until the state cleans up its fraud issues, “Tampon Tim” was defensive during a Friday news conference, suggesting that being held accountable is actually President Donald J. Trump and his administration weaponizing the federal government against his regime.
A visibly panicked Walz was in full gaslighting mode as he desperately flailed about to extricate himself from the fraud scandal that took place on his watch and save his chances for being elected for a third term at the helm of the northern state.
🚨 BREAKING: Gov. Tim Walz is in PANIC MODE, revealing he’s being informed HUGE amounts of federal dollars may be pulled from Minnesota because of massive fraud
Walz says CDLs, Transportation funding, you name it – it could ALL be pulled!
“The entire federal government is… pic.twitter.com/n1VqviUbVH
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) December 19, 2025
“Every night I get an update on this, of the threats to our federal money on everything we do because look, right now it’s very clear, the entire federal government is weaponized against Minnesota,” Walz told reporters.
“They’re threatening us with this,” he continued. “And this is what happens when you have a floundering presidency, and it is about those ballrooms and everything else. Now we’re back on transgender folks. And these are healthcare providers providing the best guidance to parents and children to get their care.”
“It’s on every front! It’s CDLs, it’s transportation money, it’s money across the board that they have weaponized,” the governor claimed, playing the victim.
The governor’s defensive presser comes after federal prosecutors announced more charges in the mushrooming fraud scandal on Thursday with the government now eyeing a mind-boggling $18 billion billed through Minnesota social programs since 2018, encompassing nearly the entirety of Walz’s tenure as the state’s top elected official. He took office in January 2019.
Some of the headlines Minnesotans are waking up to this morning:
“Industrial-Scale Fraud”
“Staggering amounts lost to fraud” pic.twitter.com/6P2HkAHfXP
— David Anderson (@davidanderson37) December 19, 2025
“Minnesota has become a magnet for fraud, so much so that we have developed a fraud tourism industry — people coming to our state purely to exploit and defraud its programs,” said Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph Thompson. “This is a deeply unsettling reality that all Minnesotans should understand.”
According to a report from CBS News: “Federal prosecutors announced new indictments Thursday in the widening Minnesota fraud scandal, this time involving two Philadelphia-based men accused of traveling to Minneapolis after a friend told them the taxpayer-funded programs there presented ‘a good opportunity to make money.'”
“The fraud is not small. It isn’t isolated. The magnitude cannot be overstated,” Thompson said at Thursday press conference. “What we see in Minnesota is not a handful of bad actors committing crimes. It’s a staggering, industrial-scale fraud.”
Last month, Trump branded Walz’s state as “a hub of fraudulent money laundering activity.”
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