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Trump cabinet official calls on Walz to resign over massive fraud scandal in scathing letter: 'Shame on you'
FIRST ON FOX: In a letter sent to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz on Tuesday, Trump's education secretary blasted his handling of the massive and developing fraud crisis in the state and called on him to resign from his post over the scandal while highlighting fraud allegations within the state's college education system.
"You have been Minnesota’s Governor since 2019," Education Secretary Linda McMahon wrote to Walz in a letter obtained by Fox News Digital. "During that time, your careless lack of oversight and abuse of the welfare system has attracted fraudsters from around the world, especially from Somalia, to establish a beachhead of criminality in our country. As President Trump put it, you have turned Minnesota into a ‘fraudulent hub of money laundering activity.’"
At the conclusion of the scathing letter, McMahon calls on Walz to step down over the scandal.
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"Given your dereliction of the office entrusted to you by Minnesotans, I implore you to resign and make way for more capable leadership," McMahon writes.
In addition to the fraud scandal that has garnered national headlines with nonprofits like Feeding Our Future, primarily in the Somali community, alleged to have defrauded taxpayers of at least $1 billion under Walz’s watch, McMahon’s letter focuses on findings from her department that show fraud taking place in Minnesota’s college education system.
Last week, Fox News Digital reported the Department of Education announcement that it has thwarted more than $1 billion in student aid fraud under Trump’s first year in office, including stopping suspected bots and "ghost students" from obtaining taxpayer-funded loans.
One of the "ghost students" schemes that allegedly took place in Minnesota left Riverland Community College averaging more than 100 potentially fraudulent applications per year, Fox News Digital reported.
In the letter to Walz, McMahon focused on the potential fraud in that area in his state and said almost 2,000 "ghost" students were found.
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"We call these fraudsters ‘ghost students’ because they were not ID-verified and often did not live in the United States, or they simply did not exist," McMahon wrote. "In Minnesota, 1,834 ghost students were found to have received $12.5 million in taxpayer-funded grants and loans. They collected checks from the federal government, shared a small portion of the money with the college, and pocketed the rest — without attending the college at all."
The letter mentions efforts the department has taken to crack down on "ghost students" nationwide, including "mandatory identity verification" for certain first-time applicants.
The letter also takes aim at Minnesota Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar, who has been highly criticized for her close ties to some involved in the fraud scandal, saying that she borrowed "tens of thousands" in student loans and "now does not think she should have to repay, despite her generous, taxpayer-funded salary."
Last month, a conservative watchdog group urged GOP Speaker Mike Johnson to garnish Omar’s congressional wages over her student loan debt, citing her $174,000 a year salary, Alpha News reported.
The letter claims Omar has "taken advantage" of the federal taxpayer.
The letter goes on to accuse Walz of presiding over what federal officials describe as a "massive scandal of welfare fraud" that spread across virtually every major federal assistance program. According to the letter, scammers operating in Minnesota enriched themselves by exploiting federal housing benefits, education aid, food stamps, small-business relief, and even programs meant to support elderly Americans and children with autism, all while the governor "did absolutely nothing" to stop it.
"Shame on you, Governor Walz, for allowing this to happen — and for benefiting from it," McMahon wrote to Walz. "Stop defrauding American taxpayers. No politician is above the law, and my department, alongside every other agency under the leadership of President Trump, will continue to ensure that you will not be able to dodge accountability for your actions."
Fox News Digital reached out to Walz’s office for comment.
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In a Friday press conference, Walz announced he is installing a new statewide prevention program that will work with a private firm specializing in forensic auditing.
Walz said the system was "taken advantage of by an organized group of fraudsters and criminals."
"I take full responsibility for it," Walz said. "I think, and I will acknowledge certainly to Minnesotans and to the press here, I don't think we've done a good enough job of communicating the hard work that's being done."
Walz's comments did not appear to appease critics in the state, including conservative commentator Dustin Grage, who told Fox News Digital after the press conference that no one in a position of power has been fired, raising the question with some about whether accountability has truly been taken.
"He threw out a quote that said, hey, I'm gonna take accountability, and people will run with that quote," Grage, a columnist at Townhall.com, told Fox News Digital. "But at the end of the day, not a single bureaucrat in this state in regard to the fraud has been fired. Not a single one."
"So, that ultimately means, at the end of the day, if he's to blame, the only one at this point who should be held accountable is himself, because he has not shown in any actionable form that a government employee is to blame at this point. He puts it on himself and nobody has been fired. So, ultimately, at the end of the day, Minnesotans, the voters of this state, are going to have to make a decision."
Fox News Digital’s Emma Colton contributed to this report.
Trump executive order credited with helping FBI foil New Year's Eve bombing plot in California
Federal prosecutors credited an executive order from President Donald Trump with helping the FBI uncover and stop a planned New Year’s Eve terror attack by a "far-left" extremist group in California.
First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli said the order triggered the investigation that resulted in multiple arrests.
"This investigation, I can confidently say, was triggered as a result of the president's executive order in 2025 of September and the attorney general's memo directing the federal government to move its resources and start looking at these groups," Essayli said Tuesday on "Fox & Friends."
According to Essayli, the executive order prompted a federal probe that exposed the group’s alleged plot. The Justice Department says four members of an "anti-capitalist and anti-government" group are now in custody in connection with the case.
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Essayli said the suspects belonged to a group called the Order of the Black Lotus, which operates under the Turtle Island Liberation Front. He described the larger organization as sharing "the hallmarks of Antifa" and promoting political violence.
In September, Trump signed an executive order aimed at curbing violence that he said stems from far-left groups like Antifa, declaring them a domestic terrorist organization.
Authorities say the suspects were planning to attack U.S. companies in California with explosive devices on New Year’s Eve. Essayli described the group as "far-left" and said they also discussed targeting ICE agents and government vehicles.
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According to Essayli, the FBI wasn’t "really looking" at these groups prior to the Trump administration. He said the bureau is now "laser-focused" on identifying and dismantling these types of groups.
"You can be assured that we have the full resources and assets of the federal government looking at these groups," Essayli said.
He added that Trump’s order gave investigators time to embed an undercover agent within the group, allowing authorities to monitor their plans and preparations in real time.
Prosecutors say the suspects tested explosive devices, shared detailed written instructions for making pipe bombs and communicated through encrypted messaging apps.
"They may look silly, but they’re deadly serious, and they’re very sophisticated," Essayli said.
Donald Trump Jr announces engagement to Bettina Anderson
President Donald Trump's eldest son and namesake, Donald Trump Jr., is engaged to Bettina Anderson.
"President Trump just announced at the White House that his son @DonaldJTrumpJr and his girlfriend Bettina Anderson are getting married! They just got engaged. Congratulations to them both," Laura Loomer wrote in a Monday night post on X.
She shared a video of the couple delivering remarks. In a footage, Donald Trump Jr. thanked his bride-to-be "for that one word: yes."
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Anderson said she feels "like the luckiest girl in the world."
Her Instagram profile says, "I’m just your typical stay at home mom… only I don’t do household chores… or have a husband… or have kids."
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Donald Trump Jr. was previously engaged to Kimberly Guilfoyle. Last year, the president announced Guilfoyle as his pick for U.S. Ambassador to Greece.
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Trump Jr. is a divorcee who had five children with his first wife, including his oldest child, Kai Trump, who spoke at the 2024 Republican National Convention.
White House chief of staff says Trump has 'alcoholic's personality,' thinks there's 'nothing he can't do'
White House chief of staff Susie Wiles got candid in an interview with Vanity Fair published Tuesday about members of the Trump administration — including the president himself — who she said believes there's nothing he can't do.
President Donald Trump "has an alcoholic’s personality" and "operates [with] a view that there’s nothing he can’t do. Nothing, zero, nothing," Wiles told the magazine, though she later criticized the piece as "disingenuously framed."
"Some clinical psychologist that knows one million times more than I do will dispute what I’m going to say. But high-functioning alcoholics or alcoholics in general, their personalities are exaggerated when they drink. And so I’m a little bit of an expert in big personalities," she told Vanity Fair.
Wiles' father, the late sportscaster Pat Summerall, was an alcoholic, and she helped her mother stage an intervention to help him get treated. Summerall was sober for 21 years before he passed away.
Vanity Fair also reported that Wiles said Vice President JD Vance had been "a conspiracy theorist for a decade." The report said she said Vance's support for Trump — after previously criticizing him — as "sort of political."
Chris Whipple, who wrote the article and interviewed Wiles, said he spoke to her in March about immigration.
"I will concede that we’ve got to look harder at our process for deportation," Wiles told Whipple, who said she made the comment after the U.S. deported Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador. The White House said at the time that they were members of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang living illegally in the U.S.
"If somebody is a known gang member who has a criminal past, and you’re sure, and you can demonstrate it, it’s probably fine to send them to El Salvador or whatever," Wiles said, according to Whipple. "But if there is a question, I think our process has to lean toward a double-check."
Wiles rejected Vanity Fair's reporting in a post on X on Tuesday.
"The article published early this morning is a disingenuously framed hit piece on me and the finest President, White House staff, and Cabinet in history. Significant context was disregarded and much of what I, and others, said about the team and the President was left out of the story. I assume, after reading it, that this was done to paint an overwhelmingly chaotic and negative narrative about the President and our team," she wrote.
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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt added in a statement, "Chief of Staff Susie Wiles has helped President Trump achieve the most successful first 11 months in office of any President in American history. President Trump has no greater or more loyal advisor than Susie. The entire Administration is grateful for her steady leadership and united fully behind her."
Chrome rolls out AI podcast feature on Android
Chrome on Android now offers a fresh way to digest information when your hands are busy or your eyes need a break.
A new update powered by Google Gemini can turn written webpages into short podcast-style summaries. Two virtual hosts chat about the content, making it feel easier to follow during your commute or while you multitask.
This upgrade builds on Chrome's long-standing read-aloud tool, yet now adds a more natural and lively delivery. It does not work on every website, so some pages will still use the original word-for-word reading. When the AI option appears, though, the audio feels polished and smooth.
Below is how to try it on your Android phone right now.
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First, make sure Chrome is current in the Play Store by opening the Play Store, searching for Google Chrome and tapping Update if it appears. The AI podcast feature works with version 140.0.7339.124 or newer, so confirm you have at least that version installed. Once you finish the update, open Chrome and pick any webpage with text you want to hear.
Settings may vary depending on your Android phone’s manufacturer.
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This feature can make long articles easier to absorb when you are on the move. You get a quick, conversational rundown without having to read a full page. It also helps you revisit information faster since the controls work like any audio player. If you enjoy podcasts, this tool gives you a familiar way to stay informed without draining your attention.
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Chrome's AI podcast feature brings a new layer of convenience to Android. It saves time, reduces eye strain and turns everyday browsing into a hands-free audio experience. Since it still supports the standard read-aloud mode, you can switch back anytime.
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Megan Rapinoe takes issue with US men's soccer's World Cup campaign slogan
Former U.S. women’s soccer star Megan Rapinoe mocked the U.S. men’s national soccer team World Cup campaign in a recent podcast episode last week.
The U.S. team unveiled "Never Chase Reality" as its campaign heading into the 2026 World Cup. The 90-second film featured narration by Marcello Hernandez. The squad said in a release that "’Never Chase Reality’ reflects the journey to 26 for the Men’s National Team."
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Rapinoe touched on it during the latest episode of "A Touch More" with her partner Sue Bird and sportscaster Katie Nolan.
"The team’s slogan going into the World Cup, this was like their drop, and their slogan is ‘Never chase reality.’ I was like, guys, I don’t think it’s saying what you think it’s saying," Rapinoe said. "I’m kinda like, why didn’t we just stick with, ‘Dream big?’
"To me, it said like you already think you’re not good. So, I didn’t like that."
Hernandez lays out what the campaign means to him.
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"This campaign isn’t just about soccer; it’s about the American dream. Never chasing reality means ignoring the odds and daring to dream," he said in the release. "I played soccer since I was four years old until college and have been a fan of the Men’s and Women’s U.S. National Team since I was a kid, so it’s an honor to bring my passion and enthusiasm for the game to U.S. soccer."
The reality is the U.S. men’s soccer team has not had very much success on the world stage despite the squad being considered the "golden generation."
The U.S. made it to the knockout stage in 2022, even tying with England in group play, but lost to the Netherlands. The U.S. made it to the quarterfinals in 2002.
Come June, the U.S. will be vying for a spot in the knockout stage with Paraguay and Australia and whichever squad makes it through the UEFA playoff path.
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Two key Senate Republicans join push to overturn Trump's federal union order
A pair of prominent Senate Republicans has joined Senate Democrats in support of legislation that would roll back President Donald Trump’s executive order on federal unions, but whether the bill gets a vote remains in the air.
The House last week passed its version of the bill from Rep. Jared Golden, D-Maine, dubbed the American Workers Protection Act, that would reverse a March executive order barring collective bargaining for most federal unions across a variety of agencies, like the Departments of War, Justice, State, Energy and Veterans Affairs.
That bill succeeded in the lower chamber with the aid of nearly two dozen House Republicans, but the same level of support among Senate Republicans is unlikely.
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So far, only Sens. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Susan Collins, R-Maine, have signed on as co-sponsors to the Senate’s version of the bill, first introduced by Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., in September.
Collins, who chairs the Senate Appropriations Committee, said in a statement to Fox News Digital that she agreed with Golden that "collective bargaining, which is afforded to federal employees under the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978, should be restored."
And Murkowski argued that the country’s federal employees "deserved these protections."
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"Collective bargaining rights and workplace protections have lifted up federal employees across the United States for decades, protecting them from unsafe working conditions and political retribution," she said in a statement to Fox News Digital.
The push to nix Trump’s order likely won’t see the same level of bipartisan support in the upper chamber, given that the bill is currently sitting in the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, chaired by Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., who has introduced several right-to-work bills, and because one of the more pro-union Republicans, Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., is skeptical of the bill.
"I don't know," Hawley told Fox News Digital. "The public sector unions and private sector unions seem to be two different things."
The House of Representatives passed the bill last week with support from 20 GOP lawmakers — a rare feat for a vote that was essentially a direct rebuke of one of Trump’s policies.
Golden got a vote on his measure by filing a mechanism called a discharge petition. It is designed to force a vote on legislation over the wishes of leadership, provided it gets support from a majority of House lawmakers.
The final vote passed 231-195, with all the "no" votes coming from Republicans.
Such a mechanism does not exist in the Senate, but lawmakers could try to force a vote on the floor. That requires consent from Republicans, which is unlikely. But a source close to Golden told Fox News Digital that he was engaged in conversations with senators about getting enough support to press for a chamber-wide vote on his bill.
Golden told Fox News Digital on Friday that both he and Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., were in discussions with senators to try and win support.
He said he’d spoken with "a few" senators after the bill passed but added, "the real push is gonna be coming in the days and weeks ahead."
And Warner, who is pushing the companion to Golden’s bill in the Senate, told Fox News Digital in a statement that Republican defections in the lower chamber was a "clear sign that these executive orders went way too far."
"Republicans and Democrats alike are recognizing that you can’t run a functioning government by attacking the very workforce that keeps Americans safe," he said. "The bipartisan momentum in the House only strengthens our hand in the Senate, and I intend to build on it."
ICE rejects Omar claim son was pulled over by feds, pressed for citizenship proof: ‘Absolutely zero record’
The head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) rejected a viral claim from Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., that her son was pressed for proof of U.S. citizenship by agency personnel after stopping at a Minnesota Target over the weekend.
Omar had told CBS’ Twin Cities affiliate that her son was subjected to a traffic stop-type encounter by ICE agents on Saturday but was ultimately let go without further issue after he was able to produce a U.S. passport or passport card.
Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons pushed back on the assertion on Tuesday, telling Fox News Digital the incident never happened.
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"ICE has absolutely zero record of its officers or agents pulling over Congresswoman Omar’s son," Lyons said.
"It speaks volumes that Congresswoman Omar is leveling this accusation with absolutely zero proof."
Lyons called Omar’s comments to the local outlet a "ridiculous effort" to demonize federal law enforcement. He also said her rhetoric contributes to a spike in threats against ICE personnel, citing a 1,150% increase in assaults and an 8,000% increase in death threats.
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Omar, who has three children, said her son had gone out for an errand when ICE purportedly made contact.
Omar spokesperson Jacklyn Rogers told Fox News Digital the Democratic lawmaker stands by her account of the situation.
"The congresswoman’s son and others were pulled over by ICE, racially profiled, and forced to prove their citizenship with a passport," Rogers said.
"ICE has long operated as a rogue agency beyond reform. It’s no surprise that an agency known for disappearing people also can’t keep its records straight. ICE now claims it has records of all the stops, and our office would welcome the opportunity to review them."
Omar also responded to President Donald Trump calling her "garbage" amid a burgeoning fraud scandal involving Minnesota’s Somali community and officials in St. Paul. Omar said it is "really disturbing and creepy to have the President of the United States be obsessed with you and those who share your ethnicity."
She also rebuked claims Trump made at a rally near Swiftwater, Pennsylvania, last week that she had married her brother to help obtain U.S. citizenship.
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"Everybody knows I came to the United States at the age of 12; gained my citizenship at the age of 17," Omar said.
Omar first entered a religious marriage with Ahmed Abdisalan Hirsi in 2002 and had two children before they separated. She then married British citizen Ahmed Nur Said Elmi in 2009, separated in 2011, reunited with Hirsi in 2012, and — after legally divorcing Elmi in 2017 — legally married Hirsi in 2018 until their separation, according to reports. She is currently married to her longtime political consultant, Timothy Mynett.
In remarks to the CBS affiliate, Omar also criticized the Trump administration for villainizing Somalis amid the fraud scandal.
"Here in the United States, we don't blame the crimes of an individual on a whole community. We are, as Minnesotans, also outraged by the fact that our tax dollars were defrauded," Omar said, telling the CBS affiliate she supports any investigation into whether Minnesota state funds have ended up in the hands of East African terror group Al-Shabab.
Fox News Digital's Michael Sinkiewicz contributed to this report.
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House GOP probes alleged Obamacare broker fraud as Jordan presses major insurers for answers
Republicans in the House of Representatives want to know if some of the country’s largest Obamacare health insurance brokers are contributing to a dismal picture of fraud spurring the program's soaring costs.
The House Judiciary Committee led by Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, sent letters to Blue Shield of California, Centene Corporation, CVS Health, Elevance Health, Kaiser Permanente, Oscar Health Inc. and GuideWell on Monday, demanding detailed information on their enrollment services.
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All those companies help consumers sign up for Obamacare’s enhanced health insurance premiums that are at the heart of the committee’s fraud evaluations.
"Brokers have targeted individuals with deceptive advertisements and pressured enrollees to lie about their incomes to obtain Obamacare subsidies. Evidence suggests that many individuals do not even know they are signing up for health insurance or agreeing to switch plans," the committee said in a statement.
The committee has asked the companies to provide how many people they’ve helped sign up for the enhanced premium tax credits, the number of enrolled people who don’t make use of their benefits, internal communications dealing with fraud and abuse, and a list of employees dealing with anti-fraud efforts.
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The Judiciary’s letters come as lawmakers wrestle with whether to extend Obamacare’s enhanced premium subsidies — even as questions about fraud and other inefficiencies remain — or to let them expire at the end of the year.
Congress initially greatly widened Obamacare’s federal assistance in 2021 as an emergency response to COVID-19. Over 90% of Obamacare’s 24 million enrollees now make use of the expanded assistance, according to research from the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Seto Bagdoyan, the director of audit services for the GAO, told Fox News Digital that under the expanded current framework, brokers are incentivized to enroll as many people as possible. He helped author a recent GAO report detailing how Obamacare’s administrators have a poor understanding of where federal assistance dollars end up.
"So, the incentive system for brokers is based on commission. They get commission from the subsidies paid to the insurance companies," Bagdoyan said.
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According to the GAO, as many as 29,000 Social Security numbers (SSNs) in 2023 and nearly 68,000 SSNs in 2024 used to receive more than one year's worth of insurance coverage with APTC in a single plan year.
Bagdoyan explained the extent of the fraud and the role brokers play in that picture isn’t well understood, but believes it has contributed to the program’s exorbitant costs.
"The unscrupulous ones will probably go out and run up the score like we think we are encountering through our analysis. [Fraud examples] include not only changes to the agent or broker of record, but also changes to the policies, new policies, and outright fraudulent policies. So that is part and parcel of the broken side," Bagdoyan said.
The Judiciary Committee has requested a response from the letter recipients no later than Dec. 29.
Fox News Digital reached out to the recipients for comment.