After a few months of analyzing an alleged fraud carried out during the pandemic in Minnesota, James David Vance, vice president of the nation, asked the Department of Justice to criminally investigate Governor Tim Walz and Keith Ellison, the state's attorney general.

Following the findings of a report by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, the second-highest ranking man in the White House seeks to determine the extent to which both Democratic politicians were responsible for the loss of $300 million in federal funding for child nutrition in Minnesota and potentially up to $9 billion in Medicaid-related funding.

Since last year, President Donald Trump ordered an investigation into the alleged fraud committed in Minnesota, since the money originally intended to support low-income children later supposedly ended up in the bank accounts of several members of the Somali community established in the United States as refugees.

Later, towards the end of February, Vance announced the suspension of $259.5 million in Medicaid funds destined for Minnesota, this as a kind of punishment, since the money would not be refundable.

Now things threaten to get more complicated, at least for President Tim Walz, after James Comer, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, issued a letter to J.D. Vance calling for the intervention of the White House Fraud Elimination Task Force and the Trump administration to thoroughly investigate Minnesota's social services programs.

“I have referred these allegations to the Department of Justice's new Fraud Division for criminal investigation.

“Minnesota state officials are not above the law, and if they facilitated fraud, lied under oath about what they knew, or harassed and intimidated whistleblowers, they must be brought to justice,” he said in a message posted on platform X, formerly known as Twitter.