• Minnesota state representatives are testifying in a Republican-led US House Oversight Committee hearing in Washington on allegations of fraud and misuse of federal funds in that state.
• In Minneapolis, meanwhile, federal agents were involved in a shooting today. A person who was shot by an ICE officer has died, Homeland Security officials say.
• The shooting happened as Minnesota faces an immigration crackdown amid a nationwide enforcement push by the Trump administration. Around 2,000 federal agents were being deployed to Minneapolis, two law enforcement sources told CNN.
• The House hearing comes after a conservative content creator’s video spotlighted yearslong welfare-fraud allegations in Minnesota. Federal officials have since frozen child care payments to the state, whose leaders have until Friday to give information about providers and parents who gets such funds. Gov. Tim Walz, a Democrat, dropped his reelection bid amid the controversy.
A Democratic congressman says the discussion of the Somali community in the House Overnight Committee hearing has gone beyond the the investigation of fraud, accusing some Republicans of “xenophobia” in their comments.
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