Minnesota’s government has become the perfect representation of waste, fraud, and abuse. Around $18 Billion in tax dollars has been lost to fraud in Minnesota thanks to Tim Walz, Keith Ellison, and legislators of both parties who refuse to hold them accountable. Instead of defunding fraud-ridden programs within the Dept. of Human Services, 20 House RINOs partnered with Democrats to spend even more money funding these programs!

The House debated a bill, HF4546, that made various adjustments to the appropriations made last year in budget bills for programs within the Dept. of Human Services (DHS) and the Dept. of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF) based on the 2026 February MMB budget forecast. This bill only has Democrat authors in the House and Senate and it lacked a majority support from House GOP legislators. The full House floor debate for the bill can be viewed here.

This bill increases spending in DHS by over $739 Million for programs including General Assistance, Minnesota Supplemental Aid, Housing Support, MinnesotaCare, Medical Assistance, and Behavioral Health Fund. These socialist programs were ALREADY funded in the 2025 budget bills but are spending like drunk sailors and are going to run out of money!

While the bill does make about $45 Million in spending cuts for DCYF, the DHS appropriation means that they voted for roughly $684 Million in new spending! 

House Republicans could have played hard-ball and allowed a future partial state government shutdown! Republican legislators shouldn’t bail out Tim Walz’ crony bureaucrats demanding more tax dollars! Fraud is rampant but 20 House RINOs do not care if your money gets wasted. See House vote below:

As seen above, Speaker Lisa Demuth and 19 other RINOs voted to bail out Walz’ fraud regime! They argued they had no choice but to amend the budget and spend more of our tax dollars. This adds to the 2nd LARGEST budget in Minnesota history passed under Demuth in 2025.

As seen in the House floor debate, RINO Steve Gander (1B) argued that now is not the time to fight fraud! If now is not the time, when is?! According to Establishment RINOs, you should waste away tax dollars and THEN try to stop the fraud… Action 4 Liberty argues to stop fraud on the front end by not wasting our tax dollars in the first place!

A short-term shutdown of socialist hand-outs is a PERFECT way for the GOP to leverage their control of the State House but they instead choose to keep the fraud-ridden programs up and running.

Under Lisa Demuth’s reign as Speaker, Walz’ fraud regime gets all the tax dollars they want! 

While most GOP members of the House Rules and Legislative Administration Committee voted against the legislation on the floor, there was no opposition in the committee when Democrat Jamie Long moved to place the bill on the House Floor Calendar. If the GOP would’ve voted as a block against the bill in committee, the Socialist bail out wouldn’t have even been given a floor vote!

Here are the 20 RINOs that voted to bail out Tim Walz’ Socialist, fraud-ridden programs: Keith Allen (19A), Jeff Backer (9A), Dave Baker (16B), Lisa Demuth (13A), Steve Gander (1B), Dawn Gillman (17A), Josh Heintzeman (6B), Spencer Igo (7A), Ron Kresha (10A), Danny Nadeau (34A), Paul Novotny (30B), Aaron Repinski (26A), Joe Schomacker (21A), Erica Schwartz (18A), Tom Sexton (19B), Roger Skraba (3A), Paul Torkelson (15B), Cal Warwas (7B), and Natalie Zeleznikar (3B).

RINOs Jim Nash (48A) and Andrew Myers (45A) joined 2-spirit lunatic Democrat Alycia Kozlowski (8B) in not voting at all.

Action 4 Liberty will continue to hold politicians' feet to the fire and will never waiver in our mission to protect liberty for the next generation. We must protect our tax dollars from the fraud-loving Walz regime and the GOP must be willing to play hard-ball in order to get that done. A4L will keep Patriots informed with liberty-based reporting that cannot be found anywhere else.