NRSC cites Angie Craig’s criticism as it describes Flanagan’s “role in the $9 billion+ fraud scheme”
National Republican Senatorial CommitteeNational party committee for Senate Republicans, posting on its official X account
In a post on its X account, the National Republican Senatorial Committee said “Even Angie Craig tried warning Minnesotans about Peggy Flanagan's role in the $9 billion+ fraud scheme”, and quoted Craig as saying Flanagan “continues to take absolutely NO accountability for any of the fraud” and that “You were the #2 elected leader in Minnesota during that period of time”.
“Even Angie Craig tried warning Minnesotans about Peggy Flanagan's role in the $9 billion+ fraud scheme: "She continues to take absolutely NO accountability for any of the fraud... You were the #2 elected leader in Minnesota during that period of time."”
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Michele Tafoya’s accusation that Peggy Flanagan is “hiding from” Minnesota’s welfare-fraud scandal
In a September 13, 2026 post, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Michele Tafoya said her Democratic opponent, Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan, “is hiding from the fraud” in Minnesota’s Feeding Our Future scandal and “let it happen.” Feeding Our Future was a nonprofit that authorities said fraudulently obtained federal child-nutrition funds during the COVID-19 pandemic; its executive director, Aimee Bock, was convicted at trial in 2025. Flanagan was not charged and has not been accused of personally approving fraudulent payments. Asked about the scandal on the podcast Lovett or Leave It on September 20, Flanagan said fraud “is completely unacceptable,” that she supported a new independent inspector general’s office, and that Minnesota is “prosecuting fraudsters” while President Trump “is pardoning the fraudsters” who defraud Medicaid.
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The National Republican Senatorial Committee’s own post, which quotes Rep. Angie Craig from an attached clip. The source records the committee’s attributed statement and the words it attributes to Craig; it does not independently establish the assertions in it.
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The post quotes Rep. Angie Craig, who lost the August 11 DFL Senate primary to Flanagan.
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Craig’s July 27 debate remarks on the same subject are recorded separately.
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Relative to Tafoya’s accusation that Flanagan hid from and allowed Minnesota’s fraud, the committee adopts the charge in its own voice, describing Flanagan’s “role in the $9 billion+ fraud scheme”, and offers a Democrat’s criticism as support. That presses the accusation rather than merely reporting it. The closest competing label is “Mixed or conditional”; it loses because the committee states the charge without qualification.
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Read the full caseFlanagan says fraud response was outside her assigned duties
“I was not tasked with the fraud response ... My job as lieutenant governor ... is to lean on the issues that I’ve been leaning on for a long time, which is children and families.”Read statement
Tafoya links Flanagan to a friend’s autism-services center and alleges it is under fraud investigation
“This is Peggy Flanagan and her best friend of 25 years. That friend runs the Milestone Development Center. It’s now under investigation for fraud. Kids with autism are not a slush fund. Minnesotans deserve so much better.”Read statement
Flanagan says the governor “took the lead on fraud” and she “did not lead in this area of work”
“I certainly was part of conversations, but I did not lead in this area of work.”Read statement
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