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Dec 9, 2025
Dr. Mehmet Oz: Gov. Tim Walz Needs to Be Investigated for Being Asleep at the Wheel
Twitchy
We remember being disappointed that Dr. Mehmet Oz lost his race for Pennsylvania senator to Democrat John Fetterman, but actually, that's worked out pretty well. Fetterman is a pleasant surprise, and Oz went on to be named the administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services under the Trump administration. In his position, he's seen a lot of fraud and waste, and he's singling out Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz for investigation for being asleep at the wheel while a billion dollars of fraud took place under his nose.
... they've been asleep at the wheel. Based on what we know now, this is a clear dereliction of duty.
First, the facts:
In recent years, Minnesota Medicaid launched several new programs, including Housing Stabilization Services, which helped disabled homeless individuals, and Early Intensive Developmental and Behavioral Intervention, which reimbursed therapy costs for families with autistic children.
Some bad actors in Minnesota's Somali community decided to game the system. And when they got away with it, they decided to go bigger.
The housing program was supposed to cost $2.6 million annually. Last year, it paid out over $100 million. The autism program ballooned from $3 million in 2018 to nearly $400 million in 2023.
These scammers used stolen taxpayer money to buy flashy cars, purchase overseas real estate, and offer kickbacks to parents who enrolled their kids at fake autism treatment centers. Some of it may have even made its way to the Somalian terrorist group Al-Shebab.
So why didn't Walz stop them?
That's simple: because he went all-in on identity politics.
Somalis are a huge voting bloc, and the state's leaders were afraid that "forcefully tackling this issue might cause political backlash." That's not me saying that. It's a Somali-American fraud investigator who talked to The New York Times.
Somali scammers get rich off the programs Gov. Walz was supposed to be managing. Minnesota politicians get elected with Somali votes and k
