USDA suspends MILLIONS in federal awards to Minnesota over rampant fraud: ‘No more handouts to thieves’
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced Friday that it was suspending federal financial awards to Minnesota over ‘massive fraud.’
‘Enough is enough! The Trump administration has uncovered MASSIVE fraud in Minnesota and Minneapolis—billions siphoned off by fraudsters,’ Brooke Rollins, the Secretary of Agriculture, wrote on X. ‘And those in charge have ZERO plan to fix it.’
The funding for the awards was suspended effective immediately ‘until sufficient proof has been provided that the fraud has stopped,’ she added.
‘No more handouts to thieves!’ Rollins wrote. ‘Time to drain the Minnesota swamp and put American taxpayers first.’
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey, both Democrats, were accused of refusing to ‘provide basic information or take common sense measures to stop fraud.’
In a letter attached to the announcement, Rollins referenced that ‘numerous non-profits and businesses have defrauded the federal government in what a federal prosecutor in Minnesota called “a staggering, industrial-scale fraud”.’
She specifically pointed to the Feeding Our Future nonprofit, which ran a $250 million fraud scheme that took advantage of a federally-funded child nutrition program.
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced Friday that it was suspending federal financial funding to Minnesota effective immediately because of ‘massive fraud’
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