Comer: Minnesota Is Just ‘Tip of the Iceberg’ of Social Program Fraud in Blue States

Craig Bannister
December 4th, 2025 1:30 PM

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The massive fraud being exposed in Minnesota is just “the tip of the iceberg,” when it comes to social program scams in states run by Democrat governors, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) said Wednesday.

Democrat governors like Minnesota's Tim Walz insist on pouring tax money into social programs where fraud is pervasive – even when they’re alerted to the fraud by whistleblowers, Comer said in an interview with Fox News: 

“The fraud entailed a whole menu of government programs – social programs. And that’s the kind of the mojo for the Democrat Party now: they want to sink more and more money into social programs, but yet they refuse to accept responsibility for any type of waste, fraud and abuse.”

Despite whistleblowers’ reports of massive fraud, “Tim Walz and Keith Ellison, the attorney general, apparently turned a blind eye to that for fear of political retaliation,” Comer said. “Such a disregard for taxpayer dollars is criminal in itself – but, to do it for political gain, that’s even worse.”

“Hopefully, we can set an example and hold people accountable for this type of negligent abuse of tax dollars, because I think this is not just a Minnesota thing,” Comer said:

“This is the tip of the iceberg and I think this investigation could lead to many more investigations in other states and, hopefully finally, some savings of taxpayer dollars.”

Gov. Walz should be held accountable because he “was warned of this massive amount of fraud and yet he turned a blind eye for political reasons” – but, so should any other governors who are willfully permitting fraud, Comer said:

“So, we want to stop this from happening, obviously, but we want to find and hold people accountable for allowing this to happen and see if this is being replicated in other states.”

 

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