Vice President Vance said late Monday that he will refer Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz
The report said Walz and Ellison were aware of widespread fraud and government failures that led to an estimated $300 million in federal child nutrition funds and potentially $9 billion in Medicaid-related funds to be “lost” or placed at “serious risk.”
In a letter to Vance, whom President Trump tapped to serve as fraud czar, House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) asked the White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud and the Trump administration to investigate Minnesota’s social service programs.
“I’ve referred these allegations to DOJ’s new Fraud Division for criminal investigation,” the vice president wrote on social platform X.
“Minnesota state officials are not above the law, and if they facilitated fraud, lied under oath about what they knew, or harassed and intimated whistleblowers, they must face justice,” he added.