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Congressman Brandon Gill didn’t whisper — he rallied. In February the Texas Republican circulated a fundraising email and online petition calling for Rep. Ilhan Omar to be deported back to Somalia after footage circulated showing Omar advising constituents about handling ICE encounters, a move Gill framed as proof that some elected Democrats put foreign allegiance ahead of American law and safety. His blunt language and social-media posts have enraged the left and lit a fire under patriotic conservatives who are tired of polite inaction.
This is precisely the kind of plain-speaking the country needs when elites respond to obvious problems with excuses and virtue-signaling. Ilhan Omar is a provocateur who has spent years agitating for open borders and policies that make fraud and exploitation easier; when a congresswoman appears to be coaching vulnerable people on how to evade enforcement, it’s not political theater — it’s a national-security problem. Gill’s pushback is about consequences: words should mean something, and laws should be enforced equally.
What should terrify every taxpayer is how these issues have played out on the ground in Minnesota — not as isolated crimes but as an industrial-scale heist. Prosecutors proved that the nonprofit Feeding Our Future falsely claimed tens of millions of meals and pilfered roughly a quarter of a billion dollars from child nutrition programs, converting federal relief into luxury homes, cars, and travel. This wasn’t a bookkeeping error; it was a fraud operation that weaponized pandemic-era loosened rules against the American people.
The courtroom outcomes make clear this is not partisan rumor-mongering but criminality with victims: a federal jury convicted the Feeding Our Future ringleader and co-defendant on multiple counts after evidence showed fabricated meal counts and sham sites. Dozens of defendants have pleaded guilty or been charged in the sprawling scheme, and prosecutors say only a fraction of the stolen funds have been recovered. Americans who played by the rules watched taxpayer money vanish while communities in need were cheated out of real help.
And Feeding Our Future was only the beginning — auditors and prosecutors quickly found similar patterns in Minnesota’s Housing Stabilization Services program, which ballooned from a modest pilot into hundreds of millions in suspicious Medicaid payouts. Federal investigators described the HSS system as riddled with fictitious companies billing for services that never occurred, and they’ve begun criminal prosecutions against several operators who exploited lax oversight. This is exactly what happens when policy-makers prioritize political coalitions over basic accountability.
The same playbook shows up in autism treatment billing: prosecutors allege schemes that recruited families into phony programs, paid kickbacks, and sent inflated Medicaid claims that skyrocketed state spending. One indictment describes how fraudsters manufactured diagnoses and funneled public money through shell operations, a pattern that helped inflate provider counts and swallow billions meant for real care. These scandals validate the skepticism of any American who worries that uncontrolled migration, weak enforcement, and partisan protection can create perverse incentives for abuse.
Conservative policymakers like Brandon Gill are right to use strong language and to demand action: secure the border, restore rigorous vetting, and cut the red tape that allowed pandemic-era waivers to be weaponized. We owe it to hardworking taxpayers to stop treating fraud as a political footnote and start treating it like the theft it is — with arrests, forfeiture, and systemic reforms so federal programs serve Americans, not criminal networks. Gill’s petition may rile the elites, but it’s a signal that somebody in Congress is finally willing to stand up for ordinary citizens.
If Democrats want to defend these programs, they should be honest about where the failures happened and propose real solutions — not protect voting blocs or smear anyone who points out uncomfortable facts. The people who pay for government deserve transparency, enforcement, and leaders who put country before tribe. It’s past time for Washington to stop apologizing for enforcement and start defending the rule of law and the American taxpayer.
