Capitol Hill is coming for Minnesota.
House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., is accusing Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison of retaliating against whistleblowers who repeatedly warned state leadership about widespread fraud.
Comer says it wasn’t a sudden surprise. It was years of alarms — and state officials “ignored” them.
Then Comer took it to primetime.
“These state legislators are well respected. They took an oath. They went under oath. If they lied, then they commit perjury. No one is accusing them of lying in Minnesota,” he said on Hannity.
“They said also that whistleblowers have been coming forward for years, not weeks, not months, but years, trying to warn Tim Walz and the attorney general, Keith Ellison, that this fraud was happening.”
“Apparently, they were catching the fraud in Minnesota, but every time they would report it, Tim Walz would bite their head off and threaten their jobs, threaten their tenure, and it would just go away until this video went viral, and here we are,” he added.
Minnesota Republican state lawmakers testified about the handling of the alleged fraud during a recent House Oversight Committee hearing.
State Rep. Marion Rarick said Walz “has done nothing other than appoint commissioners that suppressed fraud and retaliated against their own employees.”
State Rep. Walter Hudson accused Democrats of overlooking fraud because it was politically beneficial.
“The Somali community is a huge constituency group,” he said at the hearing.
According to Comer, investigators have charged 98 defendants in the ongoing fraud scandal, 85 of whom are of Somali descent.
Federal accountability efforts are already underway. The Department of Justice has deployed investigators, and dozens of arrests have been made in connection with the probe.
Watch Comer on Hannity in the clip above.
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