While the fraud was administered and overseen by Tim Walz, Keith Ellison, and the Executive Branch of Minnesota, they were able to create our state’s massive fraud regime because the legislature funded it.

Republicans were led in the House by Lisa Demuth, who was cutting backroom deals with Tim Walz and other Democrats that led to massive spending using unconstitutional, multi-subject, fraud-funding omnibus bills. Though she complains about the fraud now, Demuth allowed Democrat priority after Democrat priority to pass and become law while Republicans got little to nothing during her time as Speaker. Demuth also cut a backroom deal with Walz and Democrats to give Minnesota massive debt in the most recent legislative session. If there’s one person who has never read “The Art of the Deal”, it would be liberal Lisa Demuth.

The Minnesota legislature passes the state budget in odd-numbered years which means the most recent budget was passed in 2025 under Lisa Demuth. Demuth claims that this was a $5 Billion reduction but that is just ANOTHER LIE from Liar Lisa. Demuth will tell people that the legislature passed a $66 Billion budget when state spending will actually total $71 Billion! There is almost ZERO that was cut from the radical Democrat’s 2023 budget.

The massive fraud in Minnesota is caused by a few bills, specifically bills that funded social services. Lisa Demuth voted for every single bill signed into law by Tim Walz in 2025 which includes the omnibus spending bill that funded abortion, daycare fraud, autism centers, and other socialist programs for Somali migrants. The massive amounts of fraud within CCAP has been known for years yet Demuth continued funding the program and blocked efforts to do away with the socialist program.

Demuth could have been a tough negotiator that used leverage to force Democrats to defund fraud. Republicans had the votes to SHUT DOWN the state government and force Democrats to make major concessions. Instead, Demuth maintained the corrupt status quo by funneling billions of tax dollars to fraudulent endeavors and failed to enact meaningful conservative reform.

The GOP had the opportunity to have a real majority in the State House by rejecting the election certificate of radical Democrat Brad Tabke after it was discovered that 21 ballots were trashed and never counted in the race that was decided by 14 votes. The House has the Constitutional authority (Article IV, Section 6) to reject his election certificate as the ultimate judge of election results. Instead, Lisa Demuth cut a deal with Democrats that allowed Tabke to be seated and recognized their bogus swearing-in ceremony as legitimate. Republicans would have had a real majority but Demuth was more concerned with appeasing radical leftists like MN Secretary of State Steve Simon and Brad Tabke.

Lisa Demuth failed Republicans as Speaker and it is clear why she has failed to garner grassroots support. The out-of-state billionaire bankrolling the PAC supporting Lisa Demuth can try to propaganize voters and make Demuth out to be a superhero when in reality, she is just a RINO and a bad negotiator.

Action 4 Liberty supports massive reductions to state spending to ensure fraud is eliminated. The larger that government is, the more corrupt and fraudulent it becomes. A4L will remain the leading group for liberty in Minnesota by never wavering on principle. We will continue to provide Patriots with liberty-based reporting that cannot be found anywhere else.