Tim Walz watched $250 million in children's food money disappear and called it somebody else's problem.
On The Five, that number came up – and it was only the beginning.
What Gutfeld connected to it is something Democrats have spent twenty-two years making sure you never heard.
Tarlov Deflected to Trump While Gutfeld Had the Medicare and Medicaid Fraud Numbers Ready
It started the way it always starts.
Liberal host Jessica Tarlov came in swinging at Trump's finances – the $3 billion he reportedly earned last year, the Q1 stock purchases in Paramount, Netflix, Warner Brothers, and Palantir.
Gutfeld stopped her cold.
"He made less money this year than he did when he was out of office."
Tarlov fired back anyway.
"He's the president. You're supposed to have made $400,000."
Gutfeld didn't flinch.
"I know this is going to blow your mind. He was a billionaire and a businessman before he was president, unlike Obama."
Shannon Bream tried to redirect the panel toward something both sides claim to agree on – JD Vance's push to work with governors on rooting out entitlement fraud.
Tarlov said she was fine with it.
"I said Tim Walz was in trouble for this. You should weed out the fraud."
Then she pivoted straight back to Trump's stock trades.
Jesse Watters called it out directly: "So did I. Everyone's buying those stocks."
Gutfeld Read the Democrat Fraud Record Like a Prosecutor
Gutfeld moved in and shut the merry-go-round down.
He named Tarlov's rhetorical hopscotch – Trump's finances, foreign policy, Iran, gas prices, looping back to finances.
"It was so convoluted."
Then he turned to the record.
"Libs have obsessions over things like ballrooms when taxpayers aren't paying for it. Meanwhile, there is a pattern of abuse, and it is relentless."
He named the Minnesota child nutrition fraud, the California hospice scam, and the ghost company fraud in Ohio.
Then he landed the number that ended the argument.
"The GAO reports, what, $3 trillion in improper payments, $3 trillion dollars since 2003 because of weak controls over entitlement programs, Medicaid and Medicare."
The actual GAO figure is $2.8 trillion.
Then Gutfeld named the protection racket out loud.
"Now you know why they circle their wagons. Whenever you approach and you say, you know what, can we look at this? They call you a fascist. 'You're trying to starve people.' 'You're trying to take money out of their health care.' No. They're protecting their profit. It's not about people."
Minnesota Medicaid Fraud Is One Piece of a Taxpayer Scam That Has Cost 2.8 Trillion Dollars
Feeding Our Future founder Aimee Bock was convicted in March 2025 for running what federal prosecutors called the largest pandemic-era fraud in U.S. history – $250 million in stolen child nutrition funds wired to sham restaurants, fake meal counts, and luxury real estate.
Seventy-eight people have been indicted.
Walz was governor every day it was happening.
Bock told Fox News from jail that she "honestly believes Keith Ellison and Gov. Walz need to be held accountable."
Walz blamed a court order for the continued payments.
The judge publicly corrected him – his administration resumed the payments on its own.
California's hospice fraud followed the same blueprint: fake patients, shell companies, Medicaid billing for services never delivered.
Ohio's ghost companies: real businesses on paper, no employees, no services, federal money out the door.
Democrat politicians have spent two decades building entitlement programs, shielding them from every audit, and calling investigators racists when they come looking.
The $2.8 trillion GAO figure is the bill for that political strategy.
Gutfeld closed with the frame Democrats have no argument against.
"We just overturned the rock. And watch how they're reacting. We overturned the rock. Let us finish the job. We gotta clean that rock or the rot is gonna return, and you're all gonna be screwed."
Tarlov had no answer.
Bream moved on.
The number stays: $2.8 trillion, twenty-two years, and Democrats calling it fascism every time someone tries to count it.
Sources:
- Matt Margolis, "Jessica Tarlov Had a Complete On-Air Meltdown, and Then Greg Gutfeld Torched Her," PJ Media, May 15, 2026.
- U.S. Government Accountability Office, "Improper Payments: Information on Agencies' Fiscal Year 2024 Estimates," GAO, March 11, 2025.
- "Convicted Minnesota Fraudster Alleges Walz, Ellison Were Aware of Widespread Fraud," Fox News, January 22, 2026.