OAN Staff Katherine Mosack
3:19 PM – Wednesday, December 31, 2025
The House Oversight Committee will hold a hearing next week to investigate the fraud schemes occurring in Minnesota and will demand answers from Governor Tim Walz’s administration.
Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) announced that lawmakers would hold a hearing on January 7th, at 10:00 a.m. ET, titled, “Oversight of Fraud and Misuse of Federal Funds in Minnesota: Part I.”
Comer has also invited Walz (D-Minn.) and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison to testify before the committee on February 4th.
“Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison have either been asleep at the wheel or complicit in a massive fraud involving taxpayer dollars in Minnesota’s social services programs,” Comer asserted in an Oversight Committee statement. “American taxpayers demand and deserve accountability for the theft of their hard-earned money.”
“The U.S. Department of Justice is actively investigating, prosecuting, and charging fraudsters who have stolen billions from taxpayers, and Congress has a duty to conduct rigorous oversight of this heist and enact stronger safeguards to prevent fraud in taxpayer-funded programs, as well as strong sanctions to hold offenders accountable,” Comer continued.
“In addition to conducting transcribed interviews with Minnesota state officials, the House Oversight Committee will hold hearings on fraud in Minnesota’s social services programs to expose failures, identify solutions, and deliver accountability,” the chairman said. “Next week, we will hear from Minnesota state lawmakers who sounded the alarm on this fraud—and whose warnings were ignored by the Walz administration. This misconduct cannot be swept aside, and Congress will not stop until taxpayers get the answers and accountability they deserve.”
It’s unclear whether Walz and Ellison will accept the committee’s invitation.
“We’re always happy to work with Congress, though this committee has a track record of holding circus hearings that have nothing to do with the issue at hand. While the Governor has been working to ensure fraudsters go to prison, the president has been selling pardons to let them out,” Walz’s office said when asked by Fox News if he would cooperate.
The upcoming hearing is separate from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)’s ongoing probe, as the House committee is opening its own separate investigation.
The committee’s interest comes as new revelations about fraud in Minnesota suggest the state may have lost as much as $9 billion. Investigators have unearthed several fraud schemes disguised as daycare centers, food assistance programs, medical providers and more assistance programs that inflated the number of people they served to launder billions in government funding. The findings brought national scrutiny onto the state.
One of the voices speaking out against the fraud under Walz’s nose is MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, who recently announced his gubernatorial run against the Democrat incumbent and failed vice presidential candidate, where he promised to stand up to the “rampant fraud under Governor Walz.”
“The price of our state government has been inflated due to this fraud,” Lindell noted in his announcement video. “This means that families have been paying too much for government. Families have been taken advantage of and others have not been taken care of.
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