House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman James Comer says his committee’s report on social services fraud in Minnesota confirmed that top state officials knew fraud was taking place on their watch.

He said that information being shared with the Justice Department is likely to include criminal referrals as the committee gets past denials and delves into who knew what and failed to act.

“We’ve given [the Justice Department] the report today that shows Walz and them knew,” Comer said, according toJust the News.

“I don’t know that it’s a crime. Incompetence isn’t a crime, unfortunately … but at the end of the day, if some of these fraudsters implicate a coordination with Attorney General Ellison or Gov. Walz, then I think that you could see some referrals from the committee,” Comer said.

Let me remind Governor Walz of his own state constitution, which he swore an oath to uphold. The governor may be impeached for malfeasance or nonfeasance in the performance of official duties. The billions in fraud he allowed to be perpetrated —with whistleblowers ignored and…pic.twitter.com/AaQpOApV3u

— Congressman Nick Langworthy (@RepLangworthy)March 4, 2026

Comer said whistleblowers have told his committee that Democratic Gov. Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison did not blow the whistle on fraud in Somali-affiliated organizations due to political considerations.

Whistleblowers “came forward because they were appalled that Walz and Ellison would not do anything about the fraud, and they knew it was because of political reasons, 100 percent political. They didn’t want to offend the Somali population, which was a massive voting bloc for the Democrat Party,” Comer said

The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has filed an interim report titled, “The Cost of Doing Nothing: How Tim Walz and Keith Ellison Fueled Minnesota’s Fraud Explosion.”

“The interim report, based on transcribed interviews with nine Minnesota state employees and documents obtained to date, includes new explosive testimony revealing that senior officials in Minnesota state government — including Governor Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison — were aware for years of widespread fraud, deliberately misled the American people about their knowledge of the fraud, possessed clear authority to safeguard taxpayer dollars, and repeatedly failed to take meaningful action,” according to anews releaseon the committee’s website.

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