[Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 5 (Thursday, January 8, 2026)]
[House]
[Page H229]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           FRAUD IN MINNESOTA

  (Mr. FINE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. FINE. Mr. Speaker, I met with a lot of angry constituents over 
the last 2 weeks. They are angry about how expensive America has 
become. They are angry, in large part, because they realize one simple 
truth: The Somali pirates are not in the Horn of Africa anymore. They 
are right here in our country, and their captain is Tim Walz.
  While my constituents suffer today, 81 percent of Somali families are 
on welfare. Nine billion dollars was stolen from child nutrition, 
housing, and autism services in Minnesota, largely through Feeding Our 
Future, a program that theoretically opened more than 250 sites and was 
supposed to be feeding 91 million meals. It was not doing that.
  There was a Medicaid program, the Early Intensive Developmental and 
Behavioral Intervention program, where the Federal Government was 
paying 64 percent and fake autism treatment firms were created.
  Our constituents are suffering. Before we ask them to continue to 
suffer, we owe it to them to root out everyone who was involved in this 
fraud and hold everyone accountable, and that is exactly what I intend 
to do.

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