Comer Urges Vance Task Force Probe After Report Claims Walz Fueled Minnesota Fraud Crisis

A House panel is asking the vice president’s anti-fraud task force to investigate alleged retaliation against whistleblowers by Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s administration in the state’s massive welfare fraud scandal.

On Sunday, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., sent a letter to Vice President JD Vance, chairman of the White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, asking for an executive branch review of the committee’s findings in the new report “The Cost of Doing Nothing: How Tim Walz and Keith Ellison Fueled Minnesota’s Fraud Explosion.”

The report, released Monday, includes testimony and documents showing that state officials continued payments to what turned out to be fraudsters. Despite warning signs of fraud, the state made the payments because of concerns about accusations of discrimination and used private investigators to look into whistleblowers. The report says that Walz and state Attorney General Keith Ellison appear to have known about the fraud problems as early as 2019.

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