Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz Defends Fraud Oversight After Viral Video Alleges ‘Billion-Dollar’ Scheme

Elon Musk, JD Vance, Mike Johnson and Kash Patel have seized on Nick Shirley’s video to call for further investigation — and bash the news media

Corbin Bolies

Mon, December 29, 2025 at 8:52 AM PST

“Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s office is defending his record in response to a viral video purporting to have uncovered massive fraud involving government-funded day care centers, saying the Democratic governor has “worked for years to crack down on fraud” and has asked “the state legislature for more authority to take aggressive action.”

The 42-minute video by Nick Shirley, a 23-year-old self-described “independent“ journalist, featured him visiting multiple Somali-run day care centers that appeared to be largely inactive despite allegedly receiving millions in state funds. He’s joined in the video by another man, identified as “David,” who claims to have long been investigating such facilities.

Conservative media figures and Republican lawmakers have seized on Shirley’s report as evidence of Democratic corruption, with the video generating more than 100 million views on X and more than 1.3 million on YouTube, where it was titled, “I Investigated Minnesota’s Billion Dollar Fraud Scandal.””

The Democrat party is a sad mix of Red and Green – Marxist Red and Islamic green – and has very little to do with anything other than power and fundamentally transforming America from a nation of the people, by the people, and for the people to a nation of the government, by the government, and for the government.