Source: Fox News
“During a Wednesday interview on CNN’s ‘The Lead with Jake Tapper’, Rep. Ilhan Omar [D-MN] appeared to struggle to explain how fraud became ‘so out of control’ in Minnesota after federal officials announced an investigation into an alleged Somali fraud network operating in the state. After being pressed by Tapper to explain how fraud became so rampant within her state, the congresswoman gave a meandering response, attributing the problem to inadequate ‘guardrails’ for COVID relief funds that were subsequently exploited. ‘I think what happened, um, is that, you know, when you have these, kind of new programs that are, um, designed to help people, you’re oftentimes relying on third parties to be able to facilitate. And I just think that a lot of the COVID programs that were set up — they were set up so quickly that a lot of the guardrails did not get created,’ Omar told the host.” (12/04/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/media/ilhan-omar-pressed-explain-how-fraud-minnesota-got-so-out-control