Scott Besson

We will not let the incompetence and recalcitrance of Governor Walz

stop law enforcement from holding these perpetrators accountable.

President Trump is dedicated to ensuring honest Minnesotans are not cheated and their hard earned tax dollars are not being abused.

Treasury will deploy all tools to bring an end to this egregious unchecked fraud and hold perpetrators to account.

We look forward to sharing our findings and keeping you all updated.

Now I will turn it back over to my team, and I will take some questions from the press.

Thank you.

I can't talk about ongoing investigations.

It's clear that Governor Walz has been negligent in his fiduciary duties as the chief executive of the state of Minnesota, that this would happen on his watch.

And we are actively pursuing all leads to see the level of involvement, whether it's limited to just negligence and incompetence or is something more than that.

Well, I think the better question is how did these things slip through the safety protocols, the financial safety protocols that we had in place.

So if for a while we have depocative processes that stop this and bring this to heal because, and again, this is a larger scandal than Minnesota.

then it is all hands on deck.

Once we get the huge amount of fraud under control, then we can worry about streamlining the procedures.

But as I said, President Trump has instructed several agencies in his administration, led by this new Assistant Attorney General,

to end this fraud and recover funds for the American taxpayer.

Well, again, because of the gross incompetence by the Walz administration and the lack of leadership, we are just putting all that together now.

But as I just said to the previous question, all

entities in the administration will be pursuing this so that we can get the biggest recoveries possible.

And we will see.