Minnesota Government Workers Blast Tim Walz for Failing to Address State Corruption

December 1, 2025

Massive fraud on Walz’s watch.

The official X account of the Minnesota Department of Human Services blasted Tim Walz over the weekend — blaming the bumbling governor for failing to address widespread fraud warnings and retaliating against whistleblowers.

“Tim Walz is 100% responsible for massive fraud in Minnesota,” the group said on X. “We let Tim Walz know of fraud early on, hoping for a partnership in stopping fraud but no, we got the opposite response. Tim Walz systematically retaliated against whistleblowers using monitoring, threats, repression, and did his best to discredit fraud reports. Instead of partnership, we got the full weight of retaliation by Tim Walz, certain DFL members and an indifferent mainstream media. It’s scary, isolating and left us wondering who we can turn to.”

Read the full message below:

Tim Walz is 100% responsible for massive fraud in Minnesota. We let Tim Walz know of fraud early on, hoping for a partnership in stopping fraud but no, we got the opposite response. Tim Walz systematically retaliated against whistleblowers using monitoring, threats, repression,… https://t.co/cEtbnuKmgn

— Minnesota Department of Human Service Employees (@Minnesota_DHS) November 30, 2025

The group’s claims come as federal prosecutors continue to unravel one of the nation’s largest COVID-era fraud cases.

From Fox News:

The Justice Department announced new charges last week against the 78th defendant in the Feeding Our Future fraud scheme, which prosecutors say involved more than $250 million in stolen funds from a federally-funded child nutrition program and has already resulted in over 50 convictions. Many of the individuals charged come from Minnesota’s Somali community.

The New York Times reported that what initially appeared to many Minnesotans as an isolated case of pandemic-era fraud has broadened into a much wider concern for state and federal officials.

The Times reported that over the past five years, according to law enforcement authorities, several fraud schemes proliferated in parts of Minnesota’s Somali community. A number of individuals allegedly created companies that billed state agencies for millions of dollars’ worth of social services that were never delivered.

The Manhattan Institute’s City Journal also alleged in a report, citing unnamed federal counterterrorism sources, that some stolen funds were transferred to Somalia and may have ended up with the terror group Al-Shabaab, though none of the federal charges in the fraud cases include any link to terrorism.

Walz appeared on Meet The Press over the weekend to address the scandal. Host Kristen Welker pressed him on whether Walz would take responsibility for the fraud.

“If you’re committing fraud, no matter where you come from, what you look like, what you believe, you are going to go to jail,” Walz said.

Certainly, I take responsibility for putting people in jail,” the governor responded.

“I will note, it’s not just Somalis. Minnesota is a generous state. Minnesota is a prosperous state, a well-run state. We’re AAA-bond rated. But that attracts criminals. Those people are going to jail. We’re doing everything we can. But to demonize an entire community on the actions of a few, it’s lazy,” he said.

Watch the clip below:

WELKER: Do you take responsibility for failing to stop this fraud in your state?

TIM WALZ: I take responsibility for putting people in jail. And I will note, it’s not just Somalis. pic.twitter.com/S3PTGydh00

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 30, 2025