Amy Klobuchar issued more than 1,000 press releases from her Senate office over a four-year stretch and somehow never once mentioned the massive fraud scandal swallowing her home state of Minnesota. Not once. Over a thousand releases. Zero mentions.
Minnesota House Speaker Lisa Demuth, the Republican gubernatorial nominee running against Klobuchar for governor, had her team review every press release Klobuchar’s Senate office put out between January 1, 2022, and December 31, 2025. Researchers searched for terms including “Minnesota fraud,” “Feeding Our Future,” “Medicaid fraud,” “child nutrition fraud,” “autism fraud,” “DHS fraud,” and several others. Every single search came up empty.
To be fair, Klobuchar’s office did find time to address other kinds of fraud during those four years. Just not the kind happening in her own backyard, apparently. Klobuchar Minnesota fraud review while billions in taxpayer money were allegedly being looted through Minnesota’s social services programs, the senator was busy with other priorities.
As Feeding Our Future was breaking and all of the fraud that was being talked about, the absent voice that I was noticing was Senator Klobuchar,” Demuth told Fox News Digital. That’s a pretty devastating line, and the numbers back it up completely.
The Feeding Our Future scandal exploded into public view in January 2022, and it has since grown into one of the largest federal fraud investigations in Minnesota history. Federal prosecutors have uncovered multiple schemes involving taxpayer-funded programs, with estimates suggesting the total losses across Minnesota’s related fraud cases could reach billions of dollars. Much of the fraud is concentrated in the Minneapolis-St. Paul region, and the Trump administration and the FBI have been working for months to dig out the full scope of the theft.
The scandal became such a defining disaster for Democratic Gov. Tim Walz that on January 5, 2026, he announced he would not seek a third term. Critics argued the fraud had simply overwhelmed his administration, pointing not just to allegations but to actual criminal prosecutions and documented losses of enormous amounts of taxpayer money. Now Klobuchar wants to inherit that mess, and she’s hoping voters forget she spent four years pretending it didn’t exist.
She’s already trying to get ahead of it. Earlier this month Klobuchar released a campaign ad promising to order a comprehensive state audit on her very first day in office. “It’s time for results, not excuses,” she posted on X while promoting the proposal. Nothing says “I’ve been paying close attention” like announcing a plan to audit a problem you never publicly acknowledged for four years.
Klobuchar won the Democratic primary easily and heads into the November general election as the favorite. Demuth is working to make Klobuchar’s four years of silence the centerpiece of the race, and with fraud and government accountability topping the list of Minnesota voter concerns, she has plenty of material to work with. If Klobuchar couldn’t find the words to address a billion-dollar fraud crisis as a U.S. senator, voters might reasonably ask whether she’ll find them as governor.
Maybe Kash Patel’s FBI should lock up Klobuchar for basically looking the other way.
