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Patriotic Americans deserve to know the truth: a new investigation by Christopher Rufo and Ryan Thorpe exposes how Minnesota’s runaway welfare state and permissive bureaucracy created a conduit that allegedly allowed taxpayer dollars to leak into the hands of Al-Shabaab in Somalia. Their reporting traces a pattern of fraud, inflated claims, and shadowy remittances that — according to multiple sources cited in the piece — funneled millions overseas where terrorist organizations can siphon off funds. This is not abstract policy failure; it’s a national-security nightmare with fingerprints on the checks.
We’ve long known about the Feeding Our Future scandal — the $250 million pandemic-era fraud that stole federal money meant for children — and the Justice Department has been bringing the hammer down in courtrooms. Federal prosecutors secured convictions and hefty sentences, underscoring that this was organized theft, not isolated mistakes, and that stolen proceeds were often laundered and sent abroad. When programs meant to feed kids become cash cows for fraudsters, the political class that enabled lax oversight must answer.
The rot runs deeper than one nonprofit. Minnesota’s Medicaid Housing Stabilization Services program ballooned from a modest pilot into a hundred-million-dollar swamp, until the state finally suspended and terminated payments to dozens of providers amid credible allegations of fraud. That shutdown — forced by federal scrutiny and public pressure — shows what happens when progressives design “low-barrier” programs and then act surprised when bad actors exploit them. Taxpayers shouldn’t be guinea pigs for social experiments that turn into feeding troughs for fraud.
Investigators and retired counterterrorism officers describe a chilling mechanism: cash routed through informal hawala networks and even transported on commercial flights, with a portion ending up in areas controlled by Al-Shabaab. Whether every dollar was knowingly directed to terrorists or siphoned off opportunistically, the practical outcome is the same — American money subsidizing violence and instability abroad. If true, the moral and security implications are unforgivable, and every official who looked the other way must be prosecuted or fired.
Politics plays a role here, too. Governor Tim Walz and his administration’s loose oversight created the environment where these schemes flourished, and national Democrats have been unwilling to confront uncomfortable truths about how policy and immigration intersect with fraud and security. President Trump’s recent move to terminate Temporary Protected Status for Somalis in Minnesota reflects the severity of the situation and the need to protect American taxpayers while we get accountability and enforcement under control.
It’s time for a full, no-excuses reckoning: federal and state officials must expand prosecutions, audit every program with explosive growth, freeze suspicious remittances, and impose stricter vetting on organizations receiving public funds. Conservatives have been warning for years about the consequences of unvetted spending and naïve multiculturalism; now the evidence is undeniable and the remedy is clear. We must defend taxpayers, secure our borders, and demand that public servants put America’s safety and finances before partisan optics.
Hardworking Minnesotans and every American deserve a government that protects their dollars and their children — not one that indirectly bankrolls terror through incompetence or willful blindness. The next steps are simple and non-negotiable: prosecute the crooks, reform the benefit systems, and stop pretending that good intentions excuse catastrophic results. If our leaders won’t do it, voters must.
