A new report from House Oversight Committee Republicans accuses Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison of spending years ignoring the state’s now widely-exposed fraud.
“Governor Walz and Attorney General Ellison knew about the fraud in federal programs administered by the State of Minnesota much earlier than they admitted,” the report bluntly states.
Titled “The Cost of Doing Nothing: How Tim Walz and Keith Ellison Fueled Minnesota’s Fraud Explosion,” the report points to numerous examples wherein Walz and Ellison knew of certain fraud but did nothing.
BREAKING: We just released a BOMBSHELL report exposing how Governor Tim Walz and AG Keith Ellison fueled Minnesota’s fraud explosion.
$9 billion in Medicaid lost. $300 million in federal child nutrition funds were placed at serious risk.
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— Oversight Committee (@GOPoversight) June 8, 2026
🔗 Read our press release and the full report here: https://t.co/vF9GFxeIgC
— Oversight Committee (@GOPoversight) June 8, 2026
“The governor and the attorney general knew about fraud in the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) and the Summer Food Service Program (SFSP) as early as April 2020, despite contrary claims made to the media,” the report reads.
“The governor and the attorney general knew about fraud in the Child Care Assistance Program as well as the Non-Emergency Medical Transportation program as early as spring 2019. The Governor and the Attorney General also became aware of fraud in 13 additional high-risk Medicaid programs at various times during their tenure and failed to act,” the report continues.
House Oversight Committee Republicans concluded this after speaking with a number of whistleblowers and also officials such as Walz’s former chief of staff, Chris Schmitter, and then-Department of Homeland Security compliance officer Shireen Gandi, among others.
“Throughout this investigation, the Committee has spoken to nearly 30 whistleblowers, most of whom are current employees in the Walz administration, with intimate knowledge of the Walz Administration’s failures to identify and eliminate fraud,” the report reads.
The whistleblowers alleged that the Waltz administration retaliated against them for trying to expose the fraud crisis.
“Whistleblowers within DHS have alleged that Governor Walz not only knew about this fraud, but that he retaliated against whistleblowers, ‘spen[ding] millions on surveilling staff and hiring private investigator (sic) or law firms to silence staff,'” the report reads.
The whistleblowers also accused Walz, Ellison, and other officials of spending more time managing the political fallout from the fraud than addressing the fraud itself.
One Minnesota Department of Education whistleblower told the FBI that she was “hand slapped” when she went looking for fraud.
BREAKING: The U.S. House Oversight Committee (@GOPoversight) issued a report today that confirms that Gov. Tim Walz and AG Keith Ellison KNEW about rampant fraud for YEARS before ever lifting a finger to stop it.
Findings from the report include:
✅Walz and Ellison knew about…— MN House Republicans (@mnhousegop) June 8, 2026
“Today’s report is the culmination of months of investigative work and reveals hard evidence showing how the Walz Administration failed to stop widespread fraud, allowing criminals to enrich themselves at the expense of American taxpayers,” committee Chairman James Comer said in a statement.
“Billions of dollars were stolen because Minnesota state leaders turned a blind eye to rampant fraud and retaliated against state employees who dared to raise concerns. It is now clear the Walz Administration chose to protect the system rather than protect the taxpayer,” he added.
Both Walz and Ellison have conveniently dismissed the GOP’s 200+ page report.
“Republicans in Congress issued a report riddled with inaccuracies and misrepresentations in an effort to politicize the issue of fraud, instead of actually helping Minnesota protect tax dollars and go after fraudsters,” Ellison’s spokesperson said.
Walz’s spokesperson, meanwhile, called the GOP panel “nothing more than a joke” and had the nerve to claim that the allegations against the embattled governor are designed to “distract from endless wars, gas prices, ICE, and the president’s insider trading.”
Democrats like Walz and Ellison, among the rest of them, are notoriously allergic to accountability.
Both men were reportedly granted an opportunity to explain themselves to Congress during a March hearing, but failed to cough up any meaningful, concrete answers.
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V. Saxena is a staff writer with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University. Saxena also contributes to BizPac Review.
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