Federal welfare spending is a fraud magnet — and taxpayers are paying the price

Investigators have found a large underworld of fraud in Minnesota’s welfare programs. In one scandal, 57 people were convicted of stealing benefits from a children’s food program. In another scandal, investigators allege that Medicaid programs for housing, autism and assisted living have been looted. A third scandal is the apparent widespread fraud in daycare programs, as profiled by a YouTuber.

Republicans have jumped on the Minnesota scandals to highlight how the fraud spread in the Somali community under a Democratic governor.