The Somali-tied welfare fraud scheme in Minnesota is likely far worse than the American people think, involving “complicit” state government officials and totaling far more stolen money than original early estimates stated, according to Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller. Billions of taxpayer dollars have been stolen from the state, and much of the welfare fraud has been tied to Somali migrants, as first reported by City Journal. And, alarmingly, some of the stolen money was allegedly funneled to Al-Shabaab terrorists.  “We believe that the Somali fraud operation in Minnesota is the single greatest theft of taxpayer dollars, through welfare fraud, in American history,” Miller said on Fox News. “We believe we have only scratched the very top of the surface of how deep this goes.” Miller noted that some of the reported welfare scams include people “pretending that children have autism, who are not in fact autistic,” and “pretending to enroll people in food programs, when, in fact, nobody was ever enrolled.” These fraudsters, Miller said, engaged in “massive fraud, lying, and theft, and grift on a scale we’ve never seen before in American history.” “The total bill, the total tab for this, is going to be far beyond the numbers being reported,” he said, suggesting we are dealing with billions of stolen tax dollars tied directly to welfare schemes. 50% off DailyWire+ annual memberships will not return for another year, so don’t miss this deal! Join now at DailyWire.com/cyberweek. “Based on the records we already have — this is a significant undercount, by the way — 75% of the Somali population in Minnesota is on welfare, and that’s likely a significant undercount of just how much of a financial burden the Somali refugee population is imposing on this country,” Miller added. .@StephenM: “We believe that the Somali fraud operation in Minnesota is the single greatest theft of taxpayer dollars, through welfare fraud, in American history… and we believe that what we are going to uncover is going to shock the American people.” pic.twitter.com/h4jfFit0jD — Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) December 6, 2025 The Trump administration advisor also claimed that Democrat leaders in the state were “fully complicit” in the fraud. “We believe the state government is fully complicit in this scheme and we believe that what we are going to uncover is going to shock the American people,” he asserted. Controversial Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) could be tied up in the scandal. “Omar’s close ties to the $1 billion welfare scam in her Minnesota congressional district are being uncovered,” the New York Post reported this past week. “Omar held parties at one of the key restaurants named in the fraud, knew one of its now-convicted owners, and one of her own staffers has also been convicted — both for stealing millions. Omar even introduced the bill that led to $250 million in fraud. Yet she claims to have been completely unaware of it.” There are also serious questions about the oversight, or lack thereof, from Democrat Gov. Tim Walz.  Currently, the Treasury Department is investigating allegations that “under the feckless mismanagement of the Biden Administration and Governor Tim Walz, hardworking Minnesotans’ tax dollars may have been diverted to the terrorist organization Al-Shabaab,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced this week. Related: Ilhan Omar Says Trump Supporters Might Attack Somalis, Brushes Off Fraud Scandal

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There is something about the podcast world that encourages former network journalists to let the mask slip and reveal that they really were the liberal activists critics alleged they were all along. Former CBS anchor Connie Chung was the latest example, as she joined former ESPN and current Morning Joe talking head Pablo Torre on his Pablo Torre Finds Out Thursday show to discuss the alleged demise of CBS since David Ellison and Bari Weiss have taken over, despite any lack of significant changes. Torre set Chung up by wondering, “By the way, what's it like to watch CBS right now?”     Chung, who was on with husband Maury Povich, began by admitting, “We don't. I mean, I can't.” Usually when someone admits to not knowing anything about a topic, that is considered the end of their contributions to the discussion, but Chung continued, “The paradigm has completely changed in news, and we have so much opinion that the truth doesn't hold value anymore, and what we end up doing is trying to — we as consumers. Trying to find the truth. We can't find good old-fashioned facts, and it distresses me so terribly.” Chung also claimed that “CBS is a whole different realization that I had worked for. CBS has now been taken over, thanks to greedy owners: Sherry Redstone, partnering with David Ellison, Larry Ellison's son. And their greed has caused the venerable CBS to actually disassemble, to crash into crumbles, and then they've hired this—I don't know what to call Bari Weiss. “ Raining on both Chung and Torre’s entire premise, Povich wasn’t inclined to freak out, “Well, she was there the other day when Trump goes on 60 Minutes. I thought it was a decent interview. It was okay.” For Torre, the fact that the interview even happened was problematic: You’re talking about Nora O'Donnell's interview. Well, part of my concern, by the way, and I find it very, if I were you, I'd find it very difficult to watch the administration of CBS News wear the costume of CBS News, getting to cosplay to pretend that nothing is different even though the very premise of their acquisition of the network was, in fact, at the discretion and blessing of the president, who was the interview subject in that video that we're describing. And so just the very basic premise of that feels very hard to stomach if you care about anything resembling adversarial journalism. Chung agreed, “If you care about serious news. When I worked at CBS, it was owned by William Paley, and he actually—who made it a point of allowing the news division to be autonomous and not have to worry about the bottom line… We reporters are watchdogs of government. It's our job to report information that is not fed to us.  It would be nice to say that the liberal meltdowns about Weiss are well-founded and CBS has reformed itself, but the new management has had mixed results. On one hand, Weiss has gone after CBS’s woke excesses by sacking the Race and Culture unit, but on the other, CBS is still making Trump-East Germany comparisons, and Weiss is reportedly hiring Matt Gutman, the ABC reporter who said that Tyler Robinson’s texts with his trans furry lover were “very touching” after multiple other suspensions. Here is a transcript of the December 4 show: Pablo Torre Finds Out 12/4/2025 PABLO TORRE: By the way, what's it like to watch CBS right now? CONNIE CHUNG: We don't. I mean, I can't. The paradigm has completely changed in news, and we have so much opinion that the truth doesn't hold value anymore, and what we end up doing is trying to — we as consumers. Trying to find the truth. We can't find good old-fashioned facts, and it distresses me so terribly. CBS is a whole different realization that I had worked for. CBS has now been taken over, thanks to greedy owners: Sherry Redstone, partnering with David Ellison, Larry Ellison's son. And their greed has caused the venerable CBS to actually disassemble, to crash into crumbles, and then they've hired this—I don't know what to call Bari Weiss. MAURY POVICH: I don't either. CHUNG: She is, you know, I, I just don't know. POVICH: Yeah, but she's—you know, we'll see. CHUNG: It's not a big “we'll see” as if she could possibly restore— POVICH: Well, she was there the other day when Trump goes on 60 Minutes. I thought it was a decent interview. It was okay. TORRE: You’re talking about Nora O'Donnell's interview. CHUNG: Yes. TORRE: Well, part of my concern, by the way, and I find it very, if I were you, I'd find it very difficult to watch the administration of CBS News wear the costume of CBS News, getting to cosplay to pretend that nothing is different even though the very premise of their acquisition of the network was, in fact, at the discretion and blessing of the president, who was the interview subject in that video that we're describing. CHUNG: That’s right. TORRE: And so just the very basic premise of that feels very hard to stomach if you care about anything resembling adversarial journalism. CHUNG: Journalism. If you care about serious news. When I worked at CBS, it was owned by William Paley, and he actually—who made it a point of allowing the news division to be autonomous and not have to worry about the bottom line. He had a president by the name of Frank Stanton, who went before Congress time and time again to defend the fourth estate. Now we have a complete dismantling of that kind of social responsibility. That we are watchdogs. We reporters are watchdogs of government. It's our job to report information that is not fed to us. 

Trump’s would-be assassin in Butler, Pennsylvania, had a lengthy online history of radicalization, extremist posts, and fetishes — but somehow, none of this sparked any concern with our intelligence agencies.“One subset of this pornography that is also pushing these men toward sexual degeneracy and gender fluidity, including transgenderism and nonbinary identity, is furry porn,” BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey comments on “Relatable,” noting that this kind of sexual obsession is rampant in violent individuals.“We also have to see that this form of pornography is actually leading to, in some ways, political violence that has now affected the president of the United States, who had an assassination attempt against him on July 13, 2024,” she continues. “And then also Charlie Kirk.”“I do not think it’s a coincidence that both of these men who are suspected as the killers of these top, you know, conservative — one politician and one activist — were also allegedly addicted to this kind of pornography and obsessed with transgenderism,” she adds.While Stuckey believes that the moral, spiritual, and political meaning behind this is a necessary topic of discussion that could “shake us out of our stupor that these are identities or interests that deserve our compassion,” those who have been tasked with uncovering the truth don’t seem to care about actually finding it.The 20-year-old gunman who attempted to murder President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, last year had a horrific online footprint and was using they/them pronouns online.“This person is messing with gender fluidity, which again, had become a sexual fetish and that this had manifested itself in the demonic identity of being they/them. Now, this person is clearly unwell for a lot of reasons,” Stuckey explains.“He had an online footprint that included extreme rhetoric espousing political violence as far back as 2019 when he was only 15 years old. He apparently was a former Trump supporter. He left violent threats against ‘the Squad.’ He wished them a quick and painful death,” she continues.“He wrote things in 2019 like ‘murder the Democrats.’ Then he also would apparently search for things that were violent like Kennedy’s assassination,” she adds.In 2020, however, it all changed.“He became critical of Trump. He called Trump a ‘racist,’ referring to Trump supporters as ‘cult followers,’” Stuckey explains, noting that he publicly posted in YouTube comments that the “only way to fight the government is with terrorism style attacks.”“So I think it’s fair to question, like, why didn’t the FBI do something about this beforehand? Because the FBI actually is able to step in when someone is making these kinds of threats online,” she continues.“Why wasn’t this happening to this guy when we have so much intelligence,” she asks, “so many resources going to our intelligence agencies?”Want more from Allie Beth Stuckey?To enjoy more of Allie’s upbeat and in-depth coverage of culture, news, and theology from a Christian, conservative perspective, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

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