Overview
- CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz told Minnesota to submit a corrective plan, freeze enrollment for high‑risk providers, verify existing providers, and deliver weekly audit updates across 14 services or risk federal share withholding by the end of January 2026.
- Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said investigators are examining whether stolen funds were routed to al‑Shabab but reported no proof to date, and prosecutors have filed no terrorism charges.
- Federal cases tied to Feeding Our Future and related schemes now include 78 defendants with 57 convictions so far, and prosecutors estimate total losses across cases could exceed $1 billion.
- More than 90% of those charged in the major Minnesota fraud cases are of Somali descent, while community leaders stress the broader Somali American community should not be blamed.
- ICE has surged operations in the Twin Cities targeting immigration violations, and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said city police will not coordinate on immigration enforcement as congressional and media scrutiny of the state’s response intensifies, including a WRAL/PolitiFact finding that Walz’s claim he ‘put people in jail’ is false.