The House Education and Workforce Committee has just issued subpoenas to Minnesota’s top officials and federal leaders. This is all about a huge fraud scheme that happened during the pandemic.
Here’s what’s going down: The committee wants documents from Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, the state’s Department of Education, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. They’re investigating how these officials handled a massive fraud case involving a nonprofit called Feeding Our Future.
Feeding Our Future was supposed to use federal funds to provide free meals for kids during the pandemic. But, according to federal prosecutors, the nonprofit misused millions of dollars. They even created fake lists of kids to pocket the money meant for real meals.
Governor Walz, who’s been in the spotlight since Vice President Kamala Harris picked him as a potential running mate, is now facing even more scrutiny. The Republican-led committee is digging into this scandal to find out how much Walz and ...