Tom Emmer

Apparently, she thinks she can.

You can't defend criminals or criminal acts.

You need to hold these people accountable.

Yeah, clearly the federal government has a role here, right?

It's not just the investigation and potential accountability issues that we're talking about if crimes have been committed.

Jamie Comer, my good friend in the Oversight Committee, has called a full hearing on this because we need to find out when you create these programs, whether I, for instance, voted for it or voted against it, doesn't matter.

If I was on the losing side of the vote and the program has literally come into existence, how, for goodness sakes, how did $250 million go from the federal government

to the state of Minnesota and then to a bunch of fraudsters.

I mean, and what we've talked about is it's over a billion dollars.

I, you just gotta, you gotta think about that for a second, over a billion dollars under the Tim Walls administration.

Uh,

That can't just be incompetence.

So who was responsible for this?

And in the future, we're going to have to have some triggers that when you have this money flowing, they've got to, I think Oz, I'll use this, I'm thinking on the fly, but Oz has given Tim Walz some very strict things that he must do if he wants to keep the Medicaid dollars flowing.

Weekly reports, other accountability things.

I think that maybe should be standard protocol from this point forward for all of the federal agencies that you got to report weekly.

You got to show us that you're doing exactly what the law says and that you're making sure these dollars are getting to where they were intended to go.

Clearly, that wasn't happening in Minnesota.

Well, I think it's just the beginning.

I mean, I would tell you that, again—