How Fraud Swamped Minnesota’s Social Services System on Tim Walz’s Watch

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Does anyone want to go past the paywall to find if this is anything more than the NYT doing their "parrot Republican attacks without nuance" trick?
- Just for future reference:
  There's already an Archive link in the post, which bypasses the paywall and doesn't give the original site any clicks. This also archives the article in general for future consumption in case the OG site takes it down for any reason.
  If you run across a post that doesn't have an archive link alongside it, you can make your own by pasting the real link at the end of an Archive URL, like so:
  archive.ph/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/us/fraud-minnesota-somali.html
  archive.is also works
- I read the article. It seems like some leftist organizations screwed the State by threatening to sue them and accuse them of racism if they didn’t approve the aid applications, so the State—not wanting to get sued, have bad press, and potentially alienate Democrats-supporting voters—approved the applications without thoroughly checking them, and thus allowing fraudulent applications to slip through.
  There’s no Republican attack in there, it’s just facts. Now, it’s absolute gold to their Republican opponents, which is a shame in my view, but it’s no reason to deny the truth. Waltz and his government need to keep their goals the same but improve their implementation, and leftist organizations need to stop eating our own with frivolous, politically-motivated lawsuits.
  We just gave Minnesota Republicans uranium-tipped bullets via our own fuck up. We need to stop doing that.
  EDIT: And apparently voters in this sub prefer a ton of copium.
  
  You may have read the article, but the article doesn’t tell the whole story and only focuses on one of the groups. The others were in fact your run of the mill conservative grifters looting things.
  Should they have vetted them more thoroughly? Yes, probably. But it was also Covid and they were responding to a food crisis.
  NYT is shitting the bed on this one, and outside of some of our more rabid republicans in MN, no one is really buying it here. You know. The kind of republicans that think they’re putting litter boxes in elementary schools, for the students.
  
  I got through about the first four paragraphs, and there were obvious bad-faith Republican attacks. To paraphrase and edit:
  "This fraud's total potential revenue [over an unstated number of years] was greater than the state spent on prisons [for a single year]."
  No objections to most of the rest of what you said, but this article is definitely a Republican slant pretending to be impartial.

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