LIZ PEEK: Minnesota’s fraud scandal exposes Democrats’ indifference to the needy

The Grinch is stealing hundreds of billions of dollars of payment benefits from America’s needy, and Democrats couldn’t attraction less.

The broadening ungraded successful Minnesota, wherever Somali criminals allegedly stole much than a cardinal dollars successful payer funds nether the indulgent eyes of Democrat Governor Tim Walz, Attorney General Keith Ellison and different authorities officials, is the extremity of the iceberg. All astir the country, determination is increasing grounds that programs meant to service the poor, the bare and the stateless person been scammed; alternatively than analyse the frauds and prosecute those responsible, Democrats denounce efforts by those trying to halt the theft.

Walz called President Trump’s vow to deport the Somali criminals liable for hijacking hundreds of millions of dollars successful payment wealth "petty vindictiveness." He blamed national COVID exigency funds for the scandal, claiming the pandemic alleviation effort "opened up the doorway to unbend the defender rails and to person fraud beryllium committed."    

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But CBS News reports that the ungraded really predates the pandemic, and began months aft Walz took bureau successful 2019. According to CBS, Democrat officials are alleged to person ignored the thievery arsenic it spun retired of power "because the nutrient foundation sought to overgarment aboriginal scrutiny of the nonprofit arsenic racism."

The brazen strategy successful Minnesota has grabbed headlines, but reporting by Fox Digital suggests reports of akin wrongdoing by the Somali assemblage has besides emerged successful Ohio.   

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Mehek Cooke, an Ohio attorney, is alleging that Somalis successful her authorities person perpetrated a "massive" Medicaid theft that "involves doctors "rubber stamping" location healthcare payouts to the household members of aged individuals for fake aesculapian conditions." Ohio’s Medicaid programme allows individuals to person up to $91,000 per twelvemonth successful payments for attraction they supply to a household member. Fraudsters allegedly record bogus claims that attraction has been provided; crooked doctors greenlight the payments and get kickbacks successful return. 

Local Ohio officials person allegedly turned a unsighted oculus to the graft, neglecting to behaviour audits oregon instrumentality different measures to verify that payments are legitimate. Similarly, successful Minnesota, 480 Department of Human Services employees went connected societal media to impeach Governor Tim Walz of ignoring warnings, posting connected X: "We fto Tim Walz cognize of fraud aboriginal on, hoping for a concern successful stopping fraud, but no, we got the other response." 

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Clearly acrophobic that the ungraded has dimmed his chances of winning a 3rd word arsenic governor, and with his disapproval ratings climbing, Walz conscionable appointed the state’s archetypal Director of Program Integrity. 

Other Minnesota politicians person besides been linked to the Somali fraudsters. The New York Post reports that Ellison, his councilman son, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and Rep. Ilhan Omar "received currency from the scammers," galore did truthful aft gathering the crooks, "raising questions astir however overmuch they knew." 

The scams successful Minnesota and Ohio are appalling but not shocking. The plundering of our nation’s payment funds is simply a nationalist problem. Obamacare is 1 of the galore authorities programs riddled with fraud. The General Accounting Office precocious reported that "large-scale systemic failures that let fake identities, dormant people, and monolithic improper usage of Social Security numbers to person Obamacare subsidies" are costing taxpayers $27 cardinal a year. As portion of their review, the GAO applied for Obamacare subsidies nether fictitious names and with zero documentation; 90% of the fake applications were accepted.   

To enactment this successful perspective, the bipartisan Congressional Budget Office precocious estimated that extending the premium subsidies being debated successful Congress would outgo astir $60 cardinal for 2 years. In different words, eliminating fraud successful Obamacare would astir wage for the extension. 

Elsewhere, see the effect of 22 Democrat-controlled states that person refused to stock accusation with the national authorities astir nutrient stamp, oregon SNAP, recipients. The Trump White House has requested the names and migration presumption of those receiving the benefits, which are, aft all, provided by the national government, successful bid to basal retired cheating.

Brooke Rollins, caput of the Department of Agriculture, which administers the program, says that the accusation provided by 28 states shows that astir 186,000 deceased radical are receiving SNAP benefits and that 500,000 are getting benefits much than once. 

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SNAP is the largest nutrition programme successful the country, providing astir $100 cardinal successful benefits annually and serving 1 successful 8 lower-income Americans, oregon 42 cardinal people. Between October 2022 and December 2024, states that person sent successful their information to the feds reported replacing more than $320 cardinal successful stolen benefits. Given that immoderate of the biggest states successful the union, similar California and New York, person refused to comply, the nationalist fig is apt acold larger. 

Last year, the General Accounting Office reported that successful 2023, the national authorities nether President Joe Biden made "improper payments" totaling an estimated $236 billion; 74% went to deceased oregon ineligible recipients.  Both Medicaid and Medicare paid retired much than $50 cardinal successful erroneous payments. The effect to this revelation by the Joe Biden White House? A large large yawn. 

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Democrats represent themselves arsenic the protectors of the indigent. Allowing hundreds of billions of dollars to spell missing each twelvemonth from SNAP, Medicaid and different big-money efforts to assistance our little fortunate citizens has the aforesaid interaction arsenic cutting those programs.

Democrats routinely howl astatine adjacent the slightest effort to trim benefits; suggesting that able-bodied azygous men were not the intended recipients of Medicaid and that enactment requirements mightiness appropriately reset the program, for instance, elicits outrage from the left.

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Democrats clasp hugely costly payment programs, knowing that the much voters go babelike connected the state, they much apt they volition reelect those promising ever-greater handouts. Cracking down connected theft, oregon discarded and abuse, brings them nary votes astatine all.

This is simply a occupation for the full country.

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