Christopher F. Rufo

Christopher F. Rufo

“The Largest Funder of Al-Shabaab Is the Minnesota Taxpayer”

How some of the state's welfare funds ended up in the hands of a terror group

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Christopher F. Rufo and Ryan Thorpe
Nov 21, 2025
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Minnesota is drowning in fraud. Billions in taxpayer dollars have been stolen during the administration of Governor Tim Walz alone. Democratic state officials, overseeing one of the most generous welfare regimes in the country, are asleep at the switch. And the media, duty-bound by progressive pieties, refuse to connect the dots.

In many cases, the fraud…

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Investigative reporter at the Manhattan Institute. Ex-newspaper hack. Words in City Journal, New York Post, etc.
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