You’ve probably heard the news by now: Minnesota fraudsters stole over $1 billion from Medicaid. And you deserve an explanation.
Our staff at CMS told me they’ve never seen anything like this in Medicaid — and everyone from Gov. Tim Walz on down needs to be investigated, because they’ve been asleep at the wheel. Based on what we know now, this is a clear dereliction of duty.
First, the facts:
In recent years, Minnesota Medicaid launched several new programs, including Housing Stabilization Services, which helped disabled homeless individuals, and Early Intensive Developmental and Behavioral Intervention, which reimbursed therapy costs for families with autistic children.
Some bad actors in Minnesota’s Somali community decided to game the system. And when they got away with it, they decided to go bigger.
The housing program was supposed to cost $2.6 million dollars annually. Last year, it paid out over $100 million. The autism program ballooned from $3 million in 2018 to nearly $400 million in 2023.
These scammers used stolen taxpayer money to buy flashy cars, purchase overseas real estate, and offer kickbacks to parents who enrolled their kids at fake autism treatment centers. Some of it may have even made its way to the Somalian terrorist group Al-Shebab.
So why didn’t Walz stop them?
That’s simple: because he went all-in on identity politics.
Somalis are a huge voting bloc, and the state’s leaders were afraid that “forcefully tackling this issue might cause political backlash.” That’s not me saying that. It’s a Somali-American fraud investigator who talked to The New York Times.
Somali scammers get rich off the programs Gov. Walz was supposed to be managing. Minnesota politicians get elected with Somali votes and keep the money flowing. This isn’t just fraud: it’s political patronage at public expense.
When Minnesota told CMS about the problem last year, they assured us they’d handle it. By summer, it was obvious they couldn’t — or wouldn’t. So, we stepped in and shut down the worst program: housing. We also froze provider enrollment in a few of the most abused programs.
So where do we go from here?
To restore the integrity of the Medicaid program, Minnesota must:
1. Provide CMS with weekly updates on how the state is stopping fraud.
2. Freeze enrollment of all high-risk providers for 6 months.
3. Confirm all providers in place are legitimate or remove them.
4. Send CMS a corrective action plan of how these will prevent this from happening again.
If we’re unsatisfied with the state’s plans or cooperation, we’ll stop paying the federal share of these programs.
The message to Walz is clear: either fix this in 60 days or start looking under your couch for spare change, because we’re done footing the bill for your incompetence.
With CMS on the case, these scammers and their bureaucratic enablers have nowhere left to hide. The vulnerable Americans who depend on these programs — and the taxpayers who fund them — deserve the truth.
It’s interesting watching the reaction play out. I’m seeing more outrage from Democrats over Pete Hegseth posting a meme about the US killing narco-traffickers than I’m seeing about two National Guard members getting shot.
The priorities are completely backwards. The outrage never seems to match the seriousness of the actual situation.
But as we know, they need to oppose Trump. That's their primary goal. No matter how dumb it makes them look. TDS really is a problem.
Former Antifa member:
“They don’t kill you because you’re a fascist. They call you a fascist so they can kill you... How is this different than a group like ISIS?"
BOOM
My family lived the horrors of communism firsthand in Korea.
I refuse to let Zohran Mamdani & the far left peddle communism-lite here.
I’ll always fight for the capitalist, free-market system that allowed my family—& many like mine—to achieve their American Dream.
This story is 100% Fake News, and the White House repeatedly told this to CNN in the strongest possible terms. Yet they still wrote the story because their ratings are dying so they thrive off drama that does not exist.
The truth is: President Trump could not be happier with his Cabinet.
Shame on you, @CNN.
🚨BREAKING: Stephen A. Smith just admitted President Trump played the Democrats "LIKE A FIDDLE" with the Epstein case.
"Trump has become a verb! He's Trumping the Democrats at every turn, playing them like a fiddle!"
This wasn't "the white man". This wasn't racism. This wasn't the system.
This was black people harming black people. We have a serious problem. The same energy we would have if it was a group of white people doing this to a black mom and her child is the same energy we need to have now.
Those children need to be held accountable and parents need to be doing a MUCH better job. This is completely unacceptable.
We need to be more accountable and make better decisions. Our standard is FAR TOO LOW.
Rep. Jasmine Crockett responds to Lee Zeldin saying he never took donations from that Jeffrey Epstein — but instead a physician who is also named Jeffrey Epstein — following her comments on the floor.
🚨 BREAKING: In an incredible victory, the U.S. trade deficit under President Trump PLUMMETS to a year low of $59.6 billion.
The "experts" suffer another devastating blow!
This is what I voted for! 👏