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'Partisan fireworks' persist on Capitol Hill as Minnesota fraud hearing convenes

Four people sit at a desk for a congressional hearing.
Kristin Robbins (left), Republican member of the Minnesota House of Representatives, Walter Hudson, Republican member of the Minnesota House of Representatives, Marion O'Neill Rarick, Republican member of the Minnesota House of Representatives, and Brendan Ballou, former special counsel at the US Department of Justice, testify during a House Oversight Committee hearing titled "Oversight of Fraud and Misuse of Federal Funds in Minnesota," on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday.
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A trio of state Republican lawmakers who are members of a legislative fraud committee will brief members of Congress Wednesday on mounting examples of misuse of federal money in some Minnesota social services programs.

The Republican-led U.S. House Oversight Committee hearing comes just days after Gov. Tim Walz abandoned his reelection campaign as fraud allegations continue to dog his administration.

Live from Washington, D.C., KARE-11 investigative reporter A.J. Lagoe joined Cathy Wurzer on Morning Edition to set the scene.

“If we thought that the partisan fireworks would be turned down after Gov. Walz bowed out of the race a couple days ago, that’s certainly not going to be happening,” Lagoe said. “I think we’re very clearly going to be hearing a lot of phrases about complicity and turning a blind eye.”

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