GOP demands answers from Walz after viral video exposes alleged daycare fraud
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Politicians criticized Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz on social media Saturday after a viral video raised questions about a day care center in Minneapolis that allegedly received millions of dollars in state funds despite being largely inactive.
Responding to an
“Politicians like it because they get power. Welfare cheats because they get rich,” Vance wrote. “But this is a zero-sum game, and they are stealing both money and political power from Minnesotans.”
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Vice President J.D. Vance took to social media on Saturday to highlight allegations of fraud in Minnesota. (Aaron Schwartz/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Rep. Mike Lawler, R-Y., demanded that Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz be “held accountable.”
“People need to be arrested and prosecuted and the Governor of Minnesota held accountable,” Lawler wrote to X on Saturday. “Congress should hold a hearing immediately and begin getting answers.”
In a 42-minute video posted Friday on X and YouTube by independent reporter Nick Shirley, Shirley and another man visit several child care centers in the blue state, including one on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis.
In the images, there is no visible activity on the site, where there is a misspelled sign reading “Quality Education Center”; however, the center is reportedly responsible for 99 children and receives approximately $4 million in government funding.
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Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has faced backlash following the state’s massive fraud scandal. (Tibrina Hobson/Getty Images)
Many other high-profile names also contributed to Shirley’s video on Saturday.
Donald Trump Jr. He wrote about
Elon Musk shared similar concerns, accusing the “radical left” of taking advantage of government programs to bring in and detain immigrants in order to “win elections and turn America into a one-party state.”
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Rep. Mike Lawler, R-Y., demanded that Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz be “held accountable.” (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images)
“The more you look at this, the more you will be horrified by what your tax money is doing and the fact that your vote will mean nothing if this is not reversed,” Musk wrote to X. “The most obvious example is the Somali voting bloc in Minnesota, a state with historically zero Somalis, electing Ilhan Omar to the U.S. Congress.”
Musk had posted the following the day before: “Prosecute [Tim Walz]”
The video went viral this week amid the burgeoning scandal enveloping the Walz administration and involving at least $1 billion lost due to alleged social services fraud largely tied to the Twin Cities’ Somali community.
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It was reported that some of it fell into the hands of the Somali terrorist organization Al-Shabab.
Lawler and Walz did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
Fox News Digital’s Charles Creitz contributed to this report.
