Linda McMahon tells Tim Walz in letter to resign over rampant Minnesota fraud

U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon posted a letter Tuesday afternoon addressed to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, imploring him to resign over the rampant fraud found in his state.

“You have been Minnesota’s governor since 2019,” McMahon writes to the 2024 Democratic vice presidential nominee in the letter, dated Monday. “During that time, your careless lack of oversight and abuse of the welfare system has attracted fraudsters from around the world, especially from Somalia, to establish a beachhead of criminality in our country.”

McMahon quotes President Donald Trump, who called Minnesota a “fraudulent hub of money laundering activity,” and she lists areas of fraud, including 1,834 “ghost students” from the state who received $12.5 million in federal grants and loans, yet pocketed most of the money without attending college.

The Department of Education has “implemented enhanced fraud controls” that have stopped “more than $1 billion in attempted financial aid theft,” but Minnesota’s problems run deeper.

These include Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, who “has sought to take advantage of the federal taxpayer by advocating for broad student debt cancellation – which she has publicly acknowledged will benefit her directly.”

“She borrowed tens of thousands of dollars to attend college as a politics major that she now does not think she should have to repay, despite her generous, taxpayer-funded salary.”

McMahon then cited the “massive scandal of welfare fraud in Minnesota, where you have done absolutely nothing as governor to stop this criminal behavior. Scammers have gotten rich off federal housing, education, food stamp, and small business programs, even defrauding assistance for elder care and autistic children.”

McMahon, who was appointed by Trump earlier this year after serving as his small business secretary during his first administration, accuses the state’s politicians of benefiting from “votes and donations from the fraudsters’ support,” including “radical Islamic terror groups overseas who receive Minnesota money to kill American servicemembers.”

“Minnesota’s political elite has turned a blind eye and even helped facilitate the laundering of money that was meant to help America’s least fortunate,” she writes.

“Shame on you, Governor Walz, for allowing this to happen – and for benefiting from it. Stop defrauding American taxpayers. No politician is above the law, and my department, alongside every other agency under the leadership of President Trump, will continue to ensure that you will not be able to dodge accountability for your actions.”

She concludes by imploring him to “resign and make way for more capable leadership.”

Walz did not post about the letter on X as of Tuesday afternoon. He posted Monday about “a top-to-bottom change in state government to create stronger oversight, leverage outside experts, modernize technology, and hold criminals accountable.”