Education Secretary Linda McMahon sent a letter to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, imploring the Democrat governor to resign. “You have been Minnesota’s Governor since 2019. During that time, your careless lack of oversight and abuse of the welfare system has attracted fraudsters from around the world, especially from Somalia, to establish a beachhead of criminality in our country. As President Trump put it, you have turned Minnesota into a ‘fraudulent hub of money laundering activity,” the letter read. “Given your dereliction of the office entrusted to you by Minnesotans, I implore you to resign and make way for more capable leadership,” it added. BREAKING: The Trump Administration is formally demanding the RESIGNATION of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz due to massive fraud and dereliction of duty Linda McMahon just CAUGHT Minnesota engaging in massive education fraud, where "ghost students" received millions of taxpayer… pic.twitter.com/22xpwOR7ye — Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) December 16, 2025 Full letter: Fox News shared further: In a Friday press conference, Walz announced he is installing a new statewide prevention program that will work with a private firm specializing in forensic auditing. Walz said the system was “taken advantage of by an organized group of fraudsters and criminals.” “I take full responsibility for it,” Walz said. “I think, and I will acknowledge certainly to Minnesotans and to the press here, I don’t think we’ve done a good enough job of communicating the hard work that’s being done.” Walz’s comments did not appear to appease critics in the state, including conservative commentator Dustin Grage, who told Fox News Digital after the press conference that no one in a position of power has been fired, raising the question with some about whether accountability has truly been taken. “He threw out a quote that said, ‘Hey, I’m gonna take accountability,’ and people will run with that quote,” Grage, a columnist at Townhall.com, told Fox News Digital. “But at the end of the day, not a single bureaucrat in this state in regard to the fraud has been fired. Not a single one.” “So, that ultimately means, at the end of the day, if he’s to blame, the only one at this point who should be held accountable is himself, because he has not shown in any actionable form that a government employee is to blame at this point. He puts it on himself and nobody has been fired. So, ultimately, at the end of the day, Minnesotans, the voters of this state, are going to have to make a decision.” Walz also received a letter from Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins. “@GovTimWalz, there is nothing you can do NOW that changes the fact you stood idly by as criminals stole MILLIONS from the American taxpayer and hungry families. The attached requires you to verify SNAP participants in the next 30 days,” Rollins said. .@GovTimWalz, there is nothing you can do NOW that changes the fact you stood idly by as criminals stole MILLIONS from the American taxpayer and hungry families. The attached requires you to verify SNAP participants in the next 30 days. Tick. Tock. pic.twitter.com/zTR27Ilr2b — Secretary Brooke Rollins (@SecRollins) December 16, 2025 Full letter: In addition, Minnesota faces a review from the U.S. Department of Labor. Labor secretary announces 'strike team' going to Minnesota to investigate rampant fraudhttps://t.co/d3R9KOwIAs — Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) December 16, 2025 Minnesota Reformer provided details: The U.S. Department of Labor announced plans for a “targeted review” of Minnesota’s unemployment insurance program amid mounting scrutiny of fraud in the state’s human services programs — now a politically potent issue that’s reached the Oval Office. The department sent a letter to the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development asserting that recent news reports of fraud in the state’s Medicaid-funded human services programs could signal fraud and abuse in unemployment benefits. “If there has been any related abuse of our (unemployment insurance) systems, it will not be tolerated, and I trust our specialized strike team to get to the bottom of this and report their findings directly to me,” Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer said in a press release. A spokeswoman for DEED said the agency routinely exceeds the federal Department of Labor’s metrics for payment accuracy and has a fraud rate below the national average. “We welcome the opportunity to illustrate the strength of our payment controls and oversight,” DEED said.