Washington Examiner senior columnist Guy Benson said Wednesday that Minnesota’s leadership “coddled” the perpetrators of the state’s fraud scandal.

Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison both testified before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Wednesday, where they admitted that Minnesota has been engulfed in a fraud scandal targeting federally funded social services programs. Among the scandals discussed in this hearing were the $250 million Feeding Our Future child nutrition fraud case and alleged abuse across Medicaid, autism services, child care assistance, and housing programs.