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What to know about Minnesota’s ‘Feeding Our Future’ fraud at the center of Trump’s latest crackdown
Trump administration officials are cracking down on a series of alleged fraud schemes in Minnesota — and ending protections for certain Somalian migrants.
The crackdown comes as Mr. Trump castigates Minnesota's large community of Somali immigrants, regularly pointing to the country — often in incendiary terms — as a justification for his administration's sweeping mass deportation campaign.
Minnesota’s governor said the president’s xenophobic remarks were dangerous as the state continued to face fiscal questions about a fraud scandal.
Minnesota boasts the largest population of Somalis in the U.S. — a community that's recently faced attacks from President Trump. Here's a brief history of how they came to settle there.
A Department of Justice spokesperson told Newsweek that the agency is “laser focused on rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse.”
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Minnesota World War II veteran believed to be last person alive who witnessed Japan treaty signing
Out of the 1,500 men on his ship, Del Thielke was the only one selected to be aboard the USS Missouri when the peace treaty was signed.
Minn., appeared on CNN's "The Lead with Jake Tapper" on Wednesday where she struggled to answer a question about how fraud got "so out of control" in Minnesota.
The state is projecting a nearly $2.5 billion surplus in the current budget and a nearly $3 billion deficit in the next.