HUD secretary says up to $84 million in ineligible assistance was given to MN under Biden

WASHINGTON (TNND) — Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner said Monday night that up to $84 million in ineligible assistance went to the state of Minnesota under former President Joe Biden.

“In Minnesota, @HUDgov has uncovered up to $84 million in ineligible assistance during Biden’s final year — including $496,000 in improper assistance to 509 dead tenants,” he wrote on the social media platform, X.

In a video attached to Turner’s post, he called what happened under the Biden administration a “lack of stewardship.”

He said that he was grateful for the team on the ground looking into it and the people involved would be held accountable.

This news comes amid the federal probe into the state of Minnesota with alleged fraud in daycare centers.

Last month, YouTuber Nick Shirley went around to multiple daycare centers in Minneapolis and noted that many of them appeared vacant.

He alleged that taxpayers were funding these daycare centers, prompting the Trump administration to act.

Earlier this month, Minnesota lawmakers accused Gov. Tim Walz in front of the House Oversight Committee, of promoting a culture of fraud and spreading it for political gain.

“Gov. Tim Walz, Attorney General Keith Ellison and Minnesota’s Democrat leadership have either been asleep at the wheel or complicit in these crimes,” House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer said during the hearing. “We must expose this theft of taxpayer dollars and hold everybody accountable who let it happen.”