The fraud in Minnesota’s welfare system is so astronomical that, after years of looking, they are still tallying up the damages.
But the number runs upwards of $10 billion, and counting. To put that in perspective, that is the yearly GDP of Somalia, to pick a country at random.
I would say “unbelievable,” but this is Walz’s Minnesota.
US Attorney’s Office: ‘Half or more’ of $18B billed through state programs tied to fraud https://t.co/ZQhtLwcoCF
— David Strom (@DavidStrom) December 18, 2025
“The magnitude of fraud in Minnesota cannot be overstated.” Gee, I wonder why.
As the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced a new batch of charges related to suspected fraudulent billing in Minnesota’s government services, officials painted a dire portrait of just how extensive the problem might be.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson on Thursday said the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) pulled claims for 14 programs identified by Minnesota officials as being particularly vulnerable to fraud and found $18 billion in Medicaid billing since 2018.
While not all of those payments were illegitimate, Thompson estimated “half or more” of the $18 billion was received through fraudulent means, though he said prosecutors are still working to find the exact number.
“The magnitude of fraud in Minnesota cannot be overstated. It’s staggering amounts of money that’s been lost,” Thompson said.
I’m certain that it is a coincidence, but 2018 was the year that Tim Walz was elected. Not that fraud in Minnesota began in 2018, but it certainly has been going strong as one of our larger industries since he entered office.
Lest you think that half of all Medicaid payments being fraudulent is the extent of the fraud, that is hardly the case. That’s just Medicaid. There are plenty more welfare programs that have been plundered, and you will recall that this saga all started with the Feeding Our Future scandal in which hundreds of millions of dollars were stolen in a massive cash grab over a couple of years, and before that a widely ignored but 9-figure daycare fraud scandal that mostly got swept under the rug.
HALF or more of all Medicaid billing was fraudulent. Let that sink in. Mull on it. Let it roll around in your brain.
It boggles the mind, even though none of us should really be shocked by now. Almost every program that funnels money to people who actually are deserving is used to funnel money by the truckload to scammers. The people we are trying to help are held up as the excuse for spending the money, but the real intent behind the programs is to steal the taxpayers blind.
Poor people in need of help are like the starving children you see on TV—props. “Send us money!” And sure, some goes to a good cause, but that is just the cost of doing business. And the real business is stealing.
Now ask yourself: Is it humanly possible for this scale of fraud to go unnoticed by the people charged with running these programs? After all, their sole job is to run the programs. It’s not like it’s a distraction from their daily jobs. It IS their job to keep track of all this.
Look, you can’t run a program with zero fraud for many reasons, just as you can’t run a grocery store without wastage. You run into questions of whether the juice of preventing some level of fraud is worth the squeeze of the effort and money you spend to root it out.
Assume 5% or so is a reasonable trade-off, or pick your number. It certainly isn’t 50%! You might as well not have that expensive bureaucracy in the first place.
Except the bureaucracy is part of the point, isn’t it? More public employees, pensions, Democrat voters… And the money shoveled out the door goes to favored constituencies, which means more outside supporters, campaign workers, Democrat voters…
I know it is hard for my good liberal friends to grasp, but a vast percentage of government spending has nothing to do with providing public services. Public services are the side gig for a corrupt political system that spreads tax dollars around for a political machine, enriching favored people.
I would compare the Walz administration to the Mafia, but to be fair, the Mafia was far less greedy. At least if you paid protection money, nobody would dare steal from you or vandalize your store. Here in Minnesota, you pay your protection money, it goes to various groups and individuals, and they also rob and vandalize your store.
Now, think on this: Kamala Harris chose Tim Walz over everybody else to be her Vice President. Do you believe that the background check completely missed this? If so, what does that say? If not, what does THAT say? Joe Biden-level corruption looks small in retrospect, doesn’t it?
Walz would have sold half the country before he left office.
