The latest wave of charges in Minnesota, hitting 80 Somali Minnesotans tied to the Feeding Our Future fraud and an autism services scam, is exactly the kind of disaster that would still be alive and thriving under a Harris administration. The reason is simple. When government grows bloated, unaccountable and terrified of being accused of discrimination, the predators figure out pretty quickly that nobody is watching the vault.
Prosecutors say hundreds of millions of dollars were siphoned away from programs meant to feed children during the pandemic. Let that sink in. While families were scrambling to keep their lives together, politically connected operators were busy manufacturing meal counts that existed only on paper. And if that was not enough, the same network burrowed into autism services, skimming millions from a program designed to help kids with real medical needs, not to pad the bank accounts of people who figured out how to game Medicaid paperwork.
The DOJ laid out just how organized this was. Asha Farhan Hassan, only 28, was hit with charges that map out a two lane fraud highway, one lane for autism services and the other for the Feeding Our Future scheme. Prosecutors say she grabbed $465,000 from the food program and played a role in a $14 million autism scam. Acting U.S. Attorney Joseph Thompson spelled out the bigger picture with brutal clarity, saying these cases are part of a massive web that has already stolen billions of taxpayer dollars. That kind of theft does not happen because the criminals are brilliant. It happens because the government makes it easy.
President Trump responded the way a leader should. He ended deportation protections for Somali nationals in Minnesota, pointing out the obvious, that the state has become a hub for fraud and gang activity because no one in charge has the courage to crack down. His post on Truth Social pulled no punches, saying the money is gone, the people are being terrorized, and the country is done pretending everything is fine.
Meanwhile, a Manhattan Institute report tied parts of the scam to money being funneled to Al Shabaab. If even a fraction of that connection is accurate, the scandal gets darker and more infuriating. Under a Harris administration this would be brushed off as a cultural misunderstanding or blamed on systemic something or other. The country has already seen what happens when political leaders prioritize narratives over law enforcement. Minnesota is learning that lesson the hard way.
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