Reps. Emmer, Finstad, Fischbach: The 'Learing' Curve Walz Never Saw Coming

WASHINGTON, D.C. — House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (MN-06) joined fellow Minnesota Republicans Rep. Michelle Fischbach (MN-07) and Rep. Brad Finstad (MN-01) on Right to the Point on the day of the House Oversight Committee's hearing on Minnesota fraud. The three lawmakers revealed that over 1,000 whistleblowers have come forward claiming they warned the Walz administration about ongoing fraud and were subsequently retaliated against.

With an estimated $9 billion stolen from taxpayers (approximately $1,500 per Minnesotan), the representatives demanded Governor Tim Walz either immediately resign or face criminal prosecution. Rep. Finstad emphasized that despite the massive fraud, not a single person has been fired from the Walz administration. Rep. Fischbach accused leadership in the Walz administration of deliberately silencing whistleblowers to avoid accountability.

Whip Emmer explained that former Attorney General Lori Swanson was investigating and prosecuting Somali daycare fraud in 2017 and 2018, but when Keith Ellison replaced her in 2019, his first action was creating a rule requiring his express approval for all investigations. Since then, no investigations occurred. The lawmakers noted that 90 percent of those charged in the nation's largest pandemic fraud case came from the Somali community.

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Key Quotes from the Episode:

Whip Emmer: "If you come to this country and you defraud Americans and Minnesotans because they're generous and you refuse to assimilate, you should get the hell out of here, and you should go home. I'm not going to be Minnesota Nice. I'm going to be Minnesota real. Tim Walz should resign, and if he doesn't resign, he's probably going to leave the office in cuffs."

Rep. Fischbach: "The Democrat administration, Governor Walz and all of his cronies, are just making sure that the whistleblowers can't tell their stories."

Rep. Finstad: "We're not going to be taken for chumps. Think of what our parents and our grandparents sacrificed to give us the life that we have. And what are we giving our kids and grandkids? We're giving them fraud. We're giving them $38 trillion in debt. We're giving them more government, not less government."