Employees with the Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) continue to speak out on Gov. Tim Walz’s failure to take “any accountability for his role in fraud.”
In a viral post over the weekend, an X account that says it represents “over 480 current staff” of Minnesota DHS wrote that employees “let Tim Walz know of fraud early on, hoping for a partnership in stopping fraud but no, we got the opposite response.”
“Instead of partnership, we got the full weight of retaliation by Tim Walz, certain DFL members and an indifferent mainstream media. It’s scary, isolating and left us wondering who we can turn to,” says the post, which has been viewed more than 27 million times.
Tim Walz is 100% responsible for massive fraud in Minnesota. We let Tim Walz know of fraud early on, hoping for a partnership in stopping fraud but no, we got the opposite response. Tim Walz systematically retaliated against whistleblowers using monitoring, threats, repression,… https://t.co/cEtbnuKmgn
— Minnesota Department of Human Service Employees (@Minnesota_DHS) November 30, 2025
It goes on to describe “a cascade of systemic failures leading up to Tim Walz.”
“As staff, we firsthand witnessed and observed fraud happening yet we were shutdown, reassigned and told to keep quiet. Sometimes more. Leadership did not want to appear to discriminate against certain communities and were unwilling to take action, such as stopping fraud, that would have an adverse impact on their image,” the post states.
“Fundamentally, Tim Walz is dishonest, lacks ethics and integrity, has poor leadership abilities, and has never taken any accountability for his role in fraud. Instead, Tim Walz deflects by blaming national politics for his own failings and distracts the public with inveterate lying,” it continues.
Alpha News has spoken with multiple people affiliated with the X account and confirmed they work for DHS.
Minnesota’s fraud crisis has attracted national media attention in recent days, starting with a City Journal report on how fraud proceeds “have been sent back to Somalia, where they ultimately landed in the hands of the terror group Al-Shabaab.”
Two days later, President Donald Trump announced that he was immediately terminating temporary protected status for Somalis in Minnesota.
“Somali gangs are terrorizing the people of that great State, and BILLIONS of Dollars are missing. Send them back to where they came from. It’s OVER!” the president said.
Minnesota is home to the largest population of Somalis in the United States and the vast majority of the individuals charged in the state’s Feeding Our Future scandal are of Somali descent.
That case — along with fraud in state housing and autism programs — was the subject of a Saturday New York Times article explaining “how fraud swamped Minnesota’s social services system on Tim Walz’s watch.”
The COVID-era scheme saw fraudsters steal hundreds of millions of dollars from a child nutrition program which reimbursed participants for feeding hungry children.
In short, fraudsters claimed they provided meals to hungry children when few, if any, meals were actually given. A nonprofit called Feeding Our Future was at the center of the scheme.
“The level of fraud in these programs is staggering. Unfortunately, our system of trust but verify no longer works. These programs have been abused over and over to the point where the fraud has overtaken the legitimate services,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson said in September while discussing fraud in various Medicaid programs.
Walz was asked on “Meet the Press” Sunday morning if he takes responsibility for failing to prevent fraud in Minnesota.
WATCH: Gov. Tim Walz refuses to take responsibility for failing to stop fraud in Minnesota.
"I take responsibility for putting people in jail," he says.
The federal government through the U.S. Attorney's office has prosecuted all of the Feeding Our Future fraud cases in… pic.twitter.com/KKUrIs8oTo
— Alpha News (@AlphaNews) November 30, 2025
“Well, certainly I take responsibility for putting people in jail,” Walz said. “I will note: it’s not just Somalis. Minnesota is a generous state. Minnesota is a prosperous state. A well-run state, we’re AAA bond-rated. But that attracts criminals.”
Anthony Gockowski
Anthony Gockowski is Editor-in-Chief of Alpha News. He previously worked as an editor for The Minnesota Sun and Campus Reform, and wrote for the Daily Caller.
