Jim Jordan exposes ‘billions’ in alleged Minnesota fraud & political cover-ups | America Right Now

Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan. He is the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and one of the lawmakers questioning the Minnesota Governor at this week's hearing. Congressman, thank you very much uh for being with us. This really is a truly unprecedented effort and I and I don't think it's getting the attention that it deserves. >> How much fraud and theft could we be talking about on a national scale here, sir? >> Well, it's it's it's I think conservative estimates are billions of dollars. I mean, particularly when you look at Medicaid and all the potential fraud that I think exists there, but these other programs as well. We know it was what estimates are in Minnesota, nine billion alone in just one state. So, um, yeah, it's it's real. The other thing I would add is Colin McDonald is at the Justice Department. They've assistant deputy attorney general position to combat fraud. They've named Colin, uh, that position. I met with Colin, sharp young lawyer, I think the right kind of guy for this uh, for this job. Going to do a good job there as well. So this is a whole of government type of effort to save the taxpayers money and then actually get the money to to for the mission it was supposed to be used for. That's important as well. >> One of the issues you pressed Governor Waltz on was whether fear of political backlash pres prevented him from t taking the action to tackle the the Somali fraud. They want to make this about race, sir, it seems, at all costs, but it really is about the acts of omission and commission because of political expediency. Your thoughts? >> Yeah, Mr. Magg's a Somali American who was a fraud investigator in [clears throat] the in the attorney general's office there in the state of Minnesota and he's the one who said they didn't do what they should have done. They didn't dig into this because they were concerned about this voting block, the Somali-American voting block, all Democrat voting block there in Minneapolis. And so it was driven by politics. So much so that the governor lied. He tried to blame the reason they restarted a program where all the auditors and all the whistleblowers were saying time out. We should stop this. They stopped it, but they restarted it because they were afraid of the politics. And Governor Walls blamed it on the court. Said the court ordered this and the court did something that never happens. They issue a press statement saying the governor's statement is false. He's lying. and he lied because of the politics and the implications of we don't want this racial discrimination lawsuit coming against us from one of our key voting blocks. Let's just keep shoveling the taxpayer money out the door. >> The committee also pointing out the explosion of spending on autism programs uh in the state over the last seven years. In 2017, autism spending was a little over a million dollars. By 2024, it was nearly 350 million. Yeah, great point because it's just one of the other programs where there was all kinds of shenanigans going on. And remember, 98 back to to this issue of the the of the politics. 98 uh people have been indicted. 85 of those are Somali American. This was about politics. They didn't want to go out and because of because of the racial discrimination lawsuits and the threats that were coming, they didn't want to do it. And it's the old playbook of the left. I always say the left has a template. The left will tell a lie. Everything's just fine. The left, what, whatever, whatever the issue, the left will tell a lie. Mainstream media will report the lie. Big tech will amplify the lie. And then when you tell the truth, they call you a racist. >> Information. Truth is freedom. >> Is Newsmax. It's real [music] news for real people.

House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan joined “America Right Now” to discuss the investigation into alleged fraud in Minnesota, highlighting the stunning increase in state spending in autism program funding from $1 million in 2017 to nearly $350 million by 2024. Watch NEWSMAX, an independent news network with a conservative perspective, available in 100M+ U.S. homes. Watch NEWSMAX anytime at http://NewsmaxTV.com. Don't have cable/satellite that carries NEWSMAX? Watch NEWSMAX online, on-demand by subscribing to NEWSMAX+ with a free trial at http://NEWSMAXPlus.com. Listen to NEWSMAX from anywhere or subscribe to podcasts: https://newsmax.com/listen/ Shop Newsmax Logo Gear at http://nws.mx/shop SOCIAL MEDIA Facebook: http://nws.mx/FB Twitter: http://nws.mx/twitter Instagram: http://nws.mx/IG Threads: http://threads.net/@NEWSMAX YouTube: https://youtube.com/NewsmaxTV Telegram: http://t.me/newsmax BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/newsmax.com TRUTH Social: https://truthsocial.com/@NEWSMAX GETTR: https://gettr.com/user/newsmax #NEWSMAX #News #BreakingNews