From the White House to the halls of Congress to the Minnesota State Capitol, the number is often the same when it comes to the amount of fraud in Minnesota — $9 billion.
“This hearing is going to focus on $9 billion stolen from the taxpayers,” Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said at the opening of a U.S. Senate committee hearing a few months ago.
“We have nine billion reasons, probably more, that we need accountability,” Rep. Mike Wiener, R-Long Prairie, said during a Minnesota House floor debate last spring.
“At least $19 billion,” President Donald Trump said in an Oval Office meeting last winter. “You know, you’re hearing nine (billion), now I’m hearing it’s 19 (billion), and it’s probably much more.”
Just this past Sunday, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Michele Tafoya said in an Read Entire Article

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