Tim Walz spent years calling fraud investigators racists while taxpayer money walked out the door.
Now the FBI is shutting down this scheme.
And Greg Gutfeld demolished Tim Walz’s latest attempt at damage control.
The FBI's Minnesota Fraud Raids Walz Tried to Claim
FBI agents hit 22 businesses across the Minneapolis area as part of a sweeping fraud investigation – fake daycares, bogus autism centers, and shell operations bleeding federal programs dry for years.
The scale is staggering.
Federal prosecutors estimate the fraud in Minnesota's social service programs could top $300 million from the Feeding Our Future scandal alone – a pandemic-era scheme in which nonprofits claimed to be feeding children and wired the money overseas instead.
Sixty-five people have been convicted so far.
The FBI and DOJ, alongside DHS and state and local partners, planned and executed all 22 search warrants.
Minutes after the raids began, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz posted on X: "Today's raids by state and federal law enforcement happened because our state agencies caught irregular behavior and reported it. That's how the system is supposed to work."
Patel fired back publicly: "Come again? This FBI and DOJ with our DHS partners drafted and executed every search warrant today. But go ahead and take credit for our work while we smoke out the fraud plaguing Minnesota under your governorship."
DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin added that Walz had "zero credibility on this issue" and had "willingly ignored and downplayed the rampant fraud and abuse in Minnesota."
Republican members of the House Oversight Committee pointed out that Walz spent a full congressional hearing dodging questions about $9 billion in Minnesota fraud and deflecting to ICE – and now he wanted a medal for it.
"Sit this one out, Tim," they wrote.
How Gutfeld Exposed Walz's Fraud Cover-Up on Live TV
Fox News host Greg Gutfeld took up the story on Gutfeld! and went straight at the audacity of it.
"He acts like he's leading the parade against corruption when he presided over it," Gutfeld said. "It's like P. Diddy saying I helped catch a lot of hookers."
For years, Walz dismissed concerns about fraud in Minnesota's government-funded programs as racial scapegoating.
When the investigations first drew heat, he publicly characterized the scrutiny as an expression of "white supremacy."
Then independent journalist Nick Shirley released a 41-minute video documenting empty daycare centers collecting millions in government payments – and Walz called him a "far right delusional conspiracy theorist."
The governor's position was simple: stop looking.
"This is what happens when ideology replaces oversight," Gutfeld said on air. "When you're afraid of being called racist, you stop looking altogether. Fraud becomes a lot easier when no one's paying attention. And under his watch, nobody was."
Walz Called Fraud Investigators White Supremacists While Taxpayers Lost Billions
Shirley's video generated over 100 million views and finally dragged the scandal into national headlines.
The Trump administration responded by freezing $185 million in childcare payments to Minnesota pending proof of legitimate operations.
Not a single affected business could provide that proof.
Walz called the freeze "political punishment."
Then, in January 2026, with the fraud consuming his governorship, he announced he was dropping his bid for a third term.
At a congressional oversight hearing in March, House Oversight Chairman James Comer said it plainly: the fraud was "a failure of leadership, plain and simple."
The same day as the FBI’s raids, a state legislative committee held a hearing on childcare fraud. Walz had been invited in March. He declined the night before – even though lawmakers confirmed he was in the Capitol building all day.
"He's probably in the basement," said Republican committee chair Rep. Kristin Robbins.
Gutfeld had a sharper image: "He's like a guy who never did his job, slept under his desk, drank during lunch, hit on the secretaries, stole from the expense account – and then realizes they had security cameras the whole time."
The Buck That Never Stopped
In his final State of the State address Tuesday, Walz told a joint session of the Minnesota legislature: "I've said the buck stops with me."
"The buck didn't stop with you, Timmy," Gutfeld said. "It went straight out the door."
Federal investigators estimate that more than $9 billion in taxpayer money flowing through 14 Minnesota-run social programs since 2018 is under fraud scrutiny.
The man who ran those programs for years is now taking a bow for the day someone finally came to clean them up.
Kash Patel isn't letting that stand.
Neither is anyone who watched this happen.
Sources:
- Fox News, "FBI Director Kash Patel fires back at Walz for claiming raid credit," Fox News, April 28, 2026.
- Brady Knox, "Patel tuts Walz after Minnesota governor takes credit for federal raids," Washington Examiner, April 28, 2026.
- "US Agents Raid 22 Minnesota Sites in Social-Welfare Fraud Probe," Reuters, April 28, 2026.
- Greg Gutfeld, monologue transcript, Gutfeld!, Fox News, April 29, 2026.
- Nick Shirley, written testimony, House Judiciary Committee, 2026.
- "New federal raids in Minnesota highlight problem of fraud in children's programs," Associated Press, April 29, 2026.
- Meridith McGraw, "Walz skips state oversight hearing on fraud prevention," Washington Examiner, April 28, 2026.