Minnesota Republican legislators and members on the House Oversight Committee criticized state Democrats for not acting sooner to address the state’s Medicaid fraud crisis in the first round of hearings on this topic.
State Republican Reps. Kristin Robbins, Walter Hudson and Marion Rarick testified at the Jan. 7 hearing and took questions from members of Congress, including Minnesota U.S. Rep. Tom Emmer.
Gov. Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison have been called to testify when the committee holds its second hearing on Feb. 10. Democrats on the Oversight Committee criticized Republicans for only focusing fraud allegations in states led by Democratic governors while ignoring cases in GOP-led states such as Mississippi.
The hearings come on the heels of Walz’s announcement Monday that he will not seek re-election amid a mounting fraud crisis in the state’s Medicaid program. The issue has sparked national scrutiny, including from President Donald Trump. The governor’s office has maintained that the hearings are “a coordinated political attack to try to silence one of the president’s most effective critics.”
