Commentary
Minnesota did not wake up one morning and suddenly become a hub for fraud.
(L-R) Kristin Robbins, Republican member of the Minnesota House of Representatives, Walter Hudson, Republican member of the Minnesota House of Representatives, Marion O'Neill Rarick, Republican member of the Minnesota House of Representatives, and Brendan Ballou, former special counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice, testify during a House Oversight Committee hearing titled "Oversight of Fraud and Misuse of Federal Funds in Minnesota," on Capitol Hill in Washington on Jan. 7, 2026. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images
Kathy Barnette
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Kathy Barnette is the author of “Nothing to Lose, Everything to Gain: Being Black and Conservative in America” (2020).