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Saturday, January 10, 2026

US Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins announced the USDA will suspend millions of dollars in financial awards to the State of Minnesota and City of Minneapolis in response to fraud investigations in the state.

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"A letter from USDA Brooke Robbins addressed to Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey cited the Feeding Our Future fraud scheme, in which dozens of people have been convicted of stealing millions of dollars from a federal program meant to feed children in need during the COVID-19 pandemic.

"The widespread and systemic fraud associated with federal benefit programs in the State of Minnesota and the City of Minneapolis demonstrate an inability to handle federal resources without additional oversight and accountability measures in place," Rollins wrote in the letter.

The diktat states that the USDA will suspend all active and future awards to the state of Minnesota and city of Minneapolis, totaling more than $129 million. The letter also requires the state and city to "provide the USA with payment justifications for all federal dollar expenditures from 20 January 2025 to the present" and require similar payment justifications in the future."

In March 2023, Governor Tim Walz (D-MN) signed a law that provides free breakfasts and lunches to all students at participating schools, effectively creating a program to feed all school children in the state. Source: School Bill

Approximately 9.1% of Minnesota households experienced food insecurity in 2023; over 440,000 Minnesotans depend on food assistance programs that are directly impacted by USDA funding. Source: Food Security in Minnesota

Dummkopf Trumpf and his sinister junta continue waging war against the people of Minnesota.

#1 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-01-10 03:11 AM | Reply

The Trump MAGA govt is the swamp. Corrupt by definition, it's at the very fibre of their DNA

#2 | Posted by hamburglar at 2026-01-10 06:43 AM | Reply

"Argh! Let'em starve! Stupid Somalis, poor people, and lib-ruls! Gargh!"

#3 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-01-10 06:48 AM | Reply

Brooke Robbins is holding a gun to every Minnesotans head.

States should organize emergency food, no different from a disaster.

Elon wipes with no less than $200 million, billionaires need to pony up.

#4 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2026-01-10 07:34 AM | Reply

Someone wrote about the "Putinization of US Foreign Policy" a few days ago.

Dummkopf Trumpf is waging "hybrid warfare," like Vladimir Putin, against the people and state of Minnesota.

We have the "Putinization of the US."

But the vicious Likud regime has been cutting food, water, and medicine to the people of Gaza (and now UNRWA), so Trumpf's tactic is also the "Netanyahuization" of domestic policy.

#5 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-01-10 07:44 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

The Donald J. Trump Foundation, was dissolved by a New York court order in 2018 due to a "shocking pattern of illegality"

Actually committing fraud. That's a pattern the Orange Menace keeps going with one scheme after another.

Anyone have their expensive, gold Trump cell phones yet many months after rubes ordered them? Nope.

It'll take years for all of his frauds to be uncovered. So many ...

#6 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2026-01-10 06:36 PM | Reply

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