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Minnesota human services officials skip fraud hearing as Walz promises reform
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Minnesota Department of Human Services (MNDHS) officials skipped a key hearing this week held by a state House fraud prevention panel, earning the ire of its chairwoman as Gov. Tim Walz separately promised reform.
MNDHS was expected to face tough questions at the hearing, which featured a former judge and Catholic diocesan official appointed by Walz to investigate «program integrity» in the state.
«I’m incredibly frustrated that they ghosted us,» House Fraud Prevention Committee Chair Kristin Robbins said, as she has since sent a letter to the department demanding answers.
Robbins, a suburban Minneapolis Republican who is also running for governor, previously said state leaders «knew this was going on and they allowed it to continue.»
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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison testify before Congress. (Graeme Sloan/Getty Images)
At the top of Monday’s hearing, Robbins verbally recognized the absence of MNDHS, as she introduced the session as one «discussing the roadmap to program integrity and fraud prevention, followed by an informational hearing and discussion of periodic data matching.»
«Before we begin, is there anyone in the Department of Human Services in the audience? I don’t see anyone,» she said. «So I just want to note for the record that [MN]DHS was invited to be available in the audience to answer questions today after Judge O’Malley’s presentation. And they have apparently declined to come, which is very frustrating.»
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Robbins said it was the second such hearing that MNDHS ignored, and that she would be contacting MNDHS Commissioner Shireen Gandhi.
«She may not always be able to attend, but there are a lot of employees at that agency [including] someone who especially can speak to periodic data matching should have been here for that portion of the hearing.»
Instead, Robbins moved on to testimony from Tim O’Malley, a retired judge and St. Paul archdiocesan official, who was recently appointed by Walz as state director of Program Integrity.
«Minnesota has experienced extensive, well-documented fraud in programs designed to serve the state’s most vulnerable residents. The state’s ineffectiveness in combating that fraud has wasted taxpayer dollars, enriched criminals, eroded public confidence, and impeded the delivery of essential services to Minnesotans in need,» O’Malley said.
Minnesota State Rep. Kristin Robbins, left, testifies before Congress. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
In a video interview with Fox News Digital, Robbins expounded on her earlier reported comments, saying it was «very disappointing» to see MNDHS no-show.
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«What was more shocking is, as we gaveled out, the next hearing was coming in, a Ways and Means Committee hearing, and all the [MN]DHS people walked in the door for the next hearing because they wanted to ask for money from the state … but they couldn’t bother to show up to react to the governor’s own program integrity report. It was unbelievable,» she said.
When reached for comment, an MNDHS spokesperson said «the department had a prior commitment Monday morning.»
«Monday marked the 19th hearing of the Minnesota House Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Policy Committee since it began in February 2025. The Minnesota Department of Human Services has testified before the committee eight times. This was the second time the department was unavailable to attend at the chair’s request,» the spokesperson said, adding that the agency supports O’Malley’s work.
Asked about MNDHS’ response to the no-show, Robbins said «it’s not true» and said that when she left the hearing at its end, she ran into MNDHS staff coming in to testify at an ensuing hearing.
«[Ours] wasn’t just any run-of-the-mill hearing. It was the public hearing on the governor’s program integrity report with the guy the governor appointed: Judge O’Malley. So, absolutely, they should have been there to ask questions.»
Walz said during a press availability broadcast Tuesday that he and O’Malley are working to root out decades of institutional issues that he likened to a «Frankenstein» monster that saw additional «bolts» being soldered on it and complicating its structure instead of it being fixed.
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«When I came here, the discussion was, if you recall clear back in 2019, that reforms around [MN]DHS as a large organization that does multiple things that we needed to think about modernizing… I talked to my fellow governors and we talked to commissioners in other states, Minnesota system of delivery around social services is a bit of an outlier in how it’s done,» Walz said.
The «topline» he said, will be to «moderniz[e] a proposal on how Medicaid is administered … Strengthening oversight of enrollment in these programs by centralizing eligibility decisions, and funding a comprehensive study to examine the role of state, counties, and tribal nations in the delivery of these to provide more transparency and effectiveness.»
Walz underlined he was not blaming counties for issues in attempting to restructure the system to a more state-centralized one.
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The governor did not respond directly to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
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Trump admin unlawfully terminated legal status of migrants who used Biden-era app, judge rules
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A federal judge ruled on Tuesday that the Trump administration unlawfully terminated the legal status of thousands of migrants who had been allowed to temporarily live in the U.S. after using an app expanded by the Biden administration to schedule appointments with immigration officials.
U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs in Boston ordered the administration to reverse its move last year to revoke the legal status of migrants who used the CBP One app.
The app was used under former President Joe Biden starting in 2023 to address the crisis at the border by allowing some migrants to make appointments to seek asylum, with many paroled into the country for up to two years, but President Donald Trump moved to shut down the app when he returned to the White House last year.
Burroughs found that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security acted unlawfully in April of last year when it sent mass emails to many of the roughly 900,000 people who entered the country using the app, informing them that it was «time for you to leave the United States.»
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U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs ordered the Trump administration to reverse its move last year to revoke the legal status of migrants who used the CBP One app. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
«The regulations do not give the agency unfettered discretion to terminate parole,» Burroughs wrote.
«When Defendants terminated the impacted noncitizens’ parole without observing the process mandated by statute and by their own regulations, they took action that was ‘not in accordance with law,’» the judge added.
The Venezuelan Association of Massachusetts, one of the plaintiffs in the case, celebrated the ruling, saying it «brings long-awaited relief after months of fear and uncertainty.»
Democracy Forward, another group that helped bring the legal challenge, also praised the judge’s decision.
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The app was used under former President Joe Biden to address the crisis at the border by allowing some migrants to make an appointment to seek asylum, with many paroled into the country for up to two years. (Sandy Huffaker/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
«Today’s ruling is a clear rejection of an administration that has tried to erase lawful status for hundreds of thousands of people with the click of a button,» the group’s president, Skye Perryman, said in a statement.
«Our clients followed the law: they waited, registered, were inspected, and were granted parole under the law. The Trump-Vance administration’s effort to tear that status away overnight was unlawful and cruel — and today, the court rejected that harmful and destabilizing policy,» the statement added.
A DHS spokesperson said the ruling was an example of «blatant judicial activism» that interfered with Trump’s authority to determine who remains in the country.
«Canceling these paroles is a promise kept to the American people to secure our borders and protect our national security,» the spokesperson said in a statement.
The judge found that DHS acted unlawfully in April of last year when it sent mass emails alerting many of the roughly 900,000 people who entered the country using the app that it was «time for you to leave the United States.» (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)
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The ruling came after a class-action lawsuit filed in August by three individuals from Venezuela, Cuba and Haiti who argued the Trump administration’s effort to remove them from the country represented an abrupt, unlawful move to pull parole status and work authorization from migrants.
The Trump administration had argued that Biden overstepped parole authority by broadly awarding the status instead of granting it on a case-by-case basis.
Burroughs said when DHS sent out termination notices to migrants, it failed to comply with requirements to provide a record showing an official had determined that the purposes of parole had been served.
«Accordingly, the parole terminations exceeded the agency’s statutory authority and contradicted the procedures set forth in its own regulations,» the judge wrote.
Reuters contributed to this report.
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Trump arremetió contra los aliados de EE.UU.: «Proteger el estrecho de Ormuz no es asunto nuestro»
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EN VIVO: El Ejéricto de Israel llevó a cabo una “oleada de ataques a gran escala” en Teherán
La Casa Blanca anunció que el presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, dará este miércoles a las 21:00 (hora de Washington) una “importante actualización” sobre la guerra en Irán, en un mensaje institucional que se difundirá por los canales oficiales.
Trump declaró el martes desde la Oficina Oval que el retiro de las fuerzas estadounidenses de Irán se concretará “muy pronto, en dos o tres semanas”, en el marco de la ofensiva conjunta con Israel. “Estamos terminando el trabajo”, sostuvo. En paralelo, el primer ministro israelí, Benjamin Netanyahu, aseguró que la operación militar continuará hasta desmantelar la estructura de poder de la república islámica. “La campaña no ha terminado. Seguiremos aplastando al régimen del terror”, afirmó.
Por su parte, el Jefe de Estado iraní, Masud Pezeshkian, señaló que su país tiene la “voluntad” de poner fin a la guerra con Estados Unidos e Israel, aunque exigió garantías para evitar una reanudación del conflicto en caso de un acuerdo de paz. En contraste con esa postura, Teherán lanzó ataques contra el aeropuerto de Kuwait, Arabia Saudita, una embarcación frente a las costas de Qatar, Emiratos Árabes Unidos y Bahréin durante la madrugada.
A continuación, la cobertura minuto a minuto:
Un niño israelí de 11 años resultó herido tras los ataques de Irán a Israel
El servicio de emergencias médicas de Israel reportó que una niña de 11 años se encuentra en estado grave tras un ataque con misiles que el ejército atribuyó a Irán.
Las alertas por misiles se activaron en el centro y norte de Israel luego de que las fuerzas de defensa emitieran advertencias sobre el fuego entrante. Los rescatistas informaron, además, de al menos 12 heridos más como resultado del ataque.
Otras dos personas sufrieron heridas moderadas, entre ellas un niño de 13 años y una mujer de 36, según el servicio de emergencias médicas Magen David Adom.
Un ciudadano bangladeshí muere por metralla de dron en Emiratos Árabes Unidos
Un bangladeshí murió en Emiratos Árabes Unidos tras la caída de metralla resultante de la interceptación de un dron, informó este miércoles la agencia oficial de noticias WAM.
El incidente ocurrió en Fujairah, cerca del estrecho de Ormuz. “La caída de metralla tras la interceptación de un dron… provocó la muerte de una persona de nacionalidad bangladesí”, publicó WAM en X.
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Israel llevó a cabo una “oleada de ataques a gran escala” en Teherán
“Recientemente, las FDI completaron una extensa serie de ataques contra la infraestructura del régimen terrorista iraní en Teherán; próximamente se darán a conocer más detalles“, informó el Ejército israelí vía X.
Marco Rubio afirmó que Washington “va a tener que reexaminar” su relación con la OTAN una vez concluida la guerra contra Irán
“Cuando necesitamos que nos permitan usar sus bases militares, ¿su respuesta es ‘no’? Entonces, ¿para qué estamos en la OTAN? Hay que plantearse esa pregunta”, afirmó el secretario de Estado estadounidense en una entrevista con Fox News
El secretario de Estado de Estados Unidos, Marco Rubio, afirmó el martes que Washington “va a tener que reexaminar” su relación con la OTAN una vez concluida la guerra contra Irán, en medio de restricciones europeas al uso de bases militares por parte de fuerzas estadounidenses.
Las defensas de Israel respondieron a un misil procedente de Yemen
El Ejército israelí informó que sus defensas aéreas respondieron la madrugada del miércoles al lanzamiento de un misil desde Yemen, donde los hutíes, aliados de Irán, han reivindicado ataques contra Israel en los últimos días.
Un comunicado castrense señaló que las fuerzas israelíes “identificaron el lanzamiento de un misil desde Yemen hacia territorio israelí; los sistemas de defensa aérea están operativos para interceptar la amenaza”.
Posteriormente, el ejército anunció que se “permitía a los residentes abandonar las zonas protegidas en todas las áreas del país”.
Las Fuerzas de Defensa de Israel reportaron más de 10.000 operaciones en Irán
Israel lanzó más de 16.000 municiones en territorio iraní desde el inicio de la guerra, en más de 800 oleadas de ataques, según fuentes militares.
Las Fuerzas de Defensa de Israel (FDI) informaron que se realizaron más de 10.000 ataques distintos contra 4.000 objetivos, entre los que figuran sistemas de defensa aérea, lanzadores de misiles balísticos, centros de producción de armas, instalaciones nucleares, cuarteles generales y comandantes y líderes militares.
Trump afirmó que Estados Unidos dejará de asumir responsabilidades directas sobre la seguridad del estrecho de Ormuz
“Lo que pasa en el estrecho no será asunto nuestro. Francia, China y otras naciones podrán abastecer sus barcos y gestionar por sí mismos su seguridad”, afirmó el mandatario, en referencia a los países que dependen del flujo energético que atraviesa ese paso clave
El presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, anunció el martes que su país dejará de asumir responsabilidades directas sobre la seguridad del estrecho de Ormuz y que avanzará con la retirada de sus fuerzas de Irán en un plazo de dos o tres semanas, al considerar cumplidos sus objetivos en la región.
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