Minnesota House Speaker Lisa Demuth, a Republican candidate for governor, told Newsmax on Friday that she is “not buying” Rep. Ilhan Omar’s explanation for how a welfare scheme in Minneapolis grew to roughly $1 billion.
She laid the blame squarely on Gov. Tim Walz and other Democrats for what she called record fraud enabled by weak oversight and no accountability.
Demuth appeared on “Finnerty” as the Department of Justice released a statement on Wednesday describing how allies of Omar, D-Minn., benefited from a pandemic-era child nutrition scheme that prosecutors say diverted hundreds of millions of dollars meant to feed poor kids.
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