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Speaker 2: As we kick off hour two on the show.

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Speaker 1: Last week, lawmakers in the House State Government Committee heard

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Speaker 1: a bill HF thirty three to ninety five. This GOP

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Speaker 1: bill dubbed the Fraud Isn't Free Act, authored by House

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Speaker 1: The committee tried to send the bill to another House

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Speaker 1: vice versa. The Fraud Is In Free Act would require

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Speaker 2: But you know Democrats can't have any of that.

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Speaker 1: So as we wait the start of the Pentagon Press briefing,

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Speaker 3: Hi there, State Representative Christian Robbins. I'm heair of the

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Speaker 4: Hearing for the week.

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Speaker 3: This one was about the O'Malley report that is providing

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Speaker 5: Fraud in the future.

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Speaker 3: And we also did a separate section on the statutory

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Speaker 1: I'm going to pause this here, we'll bring you more

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Speaker 1: go ahead and bring you in the Pentagon giving a

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Speaker 1: live update on the US strikes in Iran. This is

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Speaker 6: Are brothers in arms, my guys, your guys, our guys.

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Speaker 6: Through their terrorist proxies and cowardly attacks. Now they race

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Speaker 4: To a nuclear bomb.

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Speaker 6: President Trump will never allow it, not now, not ever,

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Speaker 6: not on our watch. The Mullahs are desperate and scrambling,

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Speaker 6: like the terrorist cowards they are. They fire missiles from

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Speaker 6: military is being systematically degraded and annihilated. Iran's neighbors and

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Speaker 6: in some cases, former allies in the Gulf, they've abandoned

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Speaker 6: badly losing. On day ten of Operation Epic Fury, we

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Speaker 6: we are executing them with ruthless precision. One destroy their

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Speaker 4: Nuclear weapons forever.

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Speaker 6: It's a laser focused, maximum authority mission delivered with overwhelming

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Speaker 6: On the other hand, the last twenty four hours have

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Speaker 4: Those days are dead.

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Speaker 6: Instead, we're winning decisively with brutal efficiency, total air dominance,

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Speaker 6: close with scripture drawing strength from Psalm one four Blessed

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Speaker 6: Fortress, my stronghold, and my deliverer.

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Speaker 4: In whom I take refuge.

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Speaker 6: May the Lord grant unyielding strength and refuge to our warriors,

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Speaker 1: Was a Secretary of War Pete Hegseth giving an update

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Speaker 1: All right, Let's get back to legislative session talking fraud. Yesterday,

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Speaker 1: As I mentioned, Kristin Robbins laid out how Tim Walls

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Speaker 3: Hi there, State Representative Kristin Robbins. I'm chair of the

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Speaker 5: They have not been.

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Speaker 3: Doing this and it's required by statute. Since the end

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Speaker 5: Walked into the next hearing in the.

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Speaker 3: Exact same room, and I asked them, why didn't you

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Speaker 3: With them in a letter this afternoon.

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Speaker 1: They just don't care. They do not care. Governor Tim

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Speaker 1: Next Minnesota DHS whistleblower Fay Bernstein going public detailing the

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Speaker 5: You know, what I really appreciate about this administration is

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Speaker 4: How hard are foes of the show screeching and punching

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Speaker 9: Do not support heg Seth quoting scripture at the end

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Speaker 9: of his press conference. You do not get blanket immunity

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Speaker 14: Good morning guys. Call about that audio you just played

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Speaker 15: Hey Tim from Rush City. I don't understand how anyone

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Speaker 1: Well, not everybody feels the way that you do or

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Speaker 16: If you listen to Pete Hegseth, then you feel patriotic

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Speaker 16: MAGA, do you believe that this holy war with Iran

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Speaker 1: great day. It seems as if you really can't make

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Speaker 7: We don't want another president that maybe wouldn't be willing

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Speaker 7: to do I'm willing to do for the good of

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Speaker 7: the world, for the good of our nation, to be

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Speaker 7: stuck with the situation in five years or ten years

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Speaker 7: from now. So we think they should put a president

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Speaker 7: in or the head of the country in this country.

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Speaker 1: So again what he said was we're ahead of schedule,

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Speaker 1: but he never gave an end date on that. So

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Speaker 1: even from the way that I had framed it this morning,

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Speaker 1: I probably took that too far in saying that it

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Speaker 1: would be over soon. He was just saying we're ahead

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Speaker 1: of schedule, but things can change, and both General Cain

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Speaker 1: and Pete Hegseth said as much during the press conference

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Speaker 1: that we shared here live on Twin City's News Talk

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Speaker 1: All Right, getting back to the fraud talk back from

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Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app.

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Speaker 8: I'm not sure what the protocol is, but it would

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Speaker 8: be great for the Republicans to get out there now

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Speaker 8: to share with the local and national media how the

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Speaker 8: DHS is actually responding to that. They should be on

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Speaker 8: Fox News, they should be on every news channel and

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Speaker 8: just tell the people what hell they are just spitting

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Speaker 8: on off the people of Minnesota. They don't really care.

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Speaker 8: They're a bunch of fraud serves all day long.

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Speaker 1: Well, while I agree, I also want to look at

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Speaker 1: this from a practical standpoint. I would like to see

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Speaker 1: further coverage on this as well. But at the same time,

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Speaker 1: that's not how any of the stuff works. You have

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Speaker 1: to be invited to go on these news shows. You

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Speaker 1: can offer yourself up as much as you want, but

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Speaker 1: ultimately it's the Fox News and the local channels that

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Speaker 1: end up deciding who's going to end up going on

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Speaker 1: the shows and who's not that's not on the Republican leadership.

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Speaker 1: And to further sort of bolster that point, the audio

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Speaker 1: that was shared with you a moment ago from Representative

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Speaker 1: Kristen Robbins, who is you know, the chair of the

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Speaker 1: Fraud Committee. She put out in detail her own video

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Speaker 1: that I shared with you, the audio laying out exactly

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Speaker 1: what had taken place putting this out on social media.

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Speaker 1: So I guess all this to say is Republicans are

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Speaker 1: actually doing what you are requesting. They're putting the information

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Speaker 1: out there. It's the news outlet's choice and decision whether

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Speaker 1: or not they want to go and put them on

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Speaker 1: their networks. You don't really have much control over that.

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Speaker 1: Trust me as somebody who knows and has been on

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Speaker 1: national news. Minnesota DHS whistleblower Fabernstein going public detailing the

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Speaker 1: retaliation that she faced, barred from DHS, investigated over accusations

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Speaker 1: of racism after attempting to address fraud seven years ago.

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Speaker 1: It was lengthy testimony. We've broken this up into a

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Speaker 1: couple of pieces we'll spike in your iHeartRadio app talkbacks

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Speaker 1: brought to you by Lyndahl Realty. As we hear from

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Speaker 1: this DHS whistleblower.

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Speaker 5: Honey, thank you Chair Robinson. Members. My name is Fabernstein

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Speaker 5: b E R N S T E I N.

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Speaker 17: I first want to just make a comment on the

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Speaker 17: report and say the word that I think no one

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Speaker 17: from DHS wants to hear again. But that's retaliation, the

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Speaker 17: our word. I am a twenty year employee, I'm a

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Speaker 17: current employee of DHS, and I am one of the

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Speaker 17: very very few DHS employees who can publicly speak about

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Speaker 17: what the environment is there. We have a very large group.

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Speaker 17: You probably have heard about the large group of employees

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Speaker 17: who anonymously tweet and anonymously work with law enforcement in

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Speaker 17: the OLA, et cetera. I have chosen to be public.

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Speaker 17: I think in the it has certainly harmed me professionally personally.

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Speaker 17: It has harmed me in many ways to.

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Speaker 5: Be public, but I feel like we have to just.

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Speaker 17: Openly speak about the conditions at the Department of Human Services.

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Speaker 17: The retaliation that I experienced was about years ago. I,

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Speaker 17: in the course of doing my job, came across some

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Speaker 17: contract irregularities that I would consider in the scope of

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Speaker 17: what we talked about today to be quite minor.

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Speaker 5: But as minor as they were.

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Speaker 17: It was not something that DHS leadership could hear.

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Speaker 5: They just couldn't hear it. And as a result.

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Speaker 17: Of me speaking about it, I was walked out of

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Speaker 17: the building. I was banned from all DHS owned and

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Speaker 17: licensed property. So if you can imagine, the rest of

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Speaker 17: the public can go to the Anderson Building and can

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Speaker 17: apply for SNAP.

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Speaker 5: And I could not. I could not use the ATM,

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Speaker 5: I could not use the cafeteria. I was not allowed

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Speaker 5: in the building.

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Speaker 1: Now, as we moved through more of this Minnesota DHS

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Speaker 1: whistleblower fae Bernstein's bombshell testimony, let me share with you

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Speaker 1: from Alpha News. In the House block legislation that would

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Speaker 1: clean state Medicaid roles, remove Medicaid eligibility for non citizens,

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Speaker 1: and conify Medicaid work requirements. That legislation would have brought

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Speaker 1: Minnesota into conformity with federal law, but of course that's

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Speaker 1: a bridge too far for Democrats in Minnesota. On Wednesday,

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Speaker 1: Minnesota House lawmakers in the House Health Committee considered two

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Speaker 1: bills that would ensure the state law conforms with the

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Speaker 1: Medicaid provisions of the One Big Beautiful Act bill. Both

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Speaker 1: of those bills are being authored by GOP Representative Danny Nadu.

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Speaker 1: The first bill, HF thirty four to thirty nine would

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Speaker 1: adopt would adapt state law to keep non citizens from

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Speaker 1: receiving Medicaid and conify the quarterly examination of the death

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Speaker 1: Master File.

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Speaker 4: That sounds ominous Death Master File.

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Speaker 1: Democrats objected to HF three four to three nine and

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Speaker 1: saying it was being rushed by committee and needed proper consideration.

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Speaker 1: That's just an excuse that Republicans proposed this, and we're

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Speaker 1: not going to get behind it. I have more on

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Speaker 1: this in just a second. Let's get back to testimony

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Speaker 1: yesterday Minnesota DHS whistle blower fay Enstein.

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Speaker 5: I was investigated that went on for months and months.

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Speaker 5: I can only imagine the cost to the state of

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Speaker 5: that investigation. And I've never spoken out about the results

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Speaker 5: of the investigation, but I guess this would be as

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Speaker 5: good a time as any. The results of months and.

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Speaker 17: Months of investigation and asking my co workers for examples

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Speaker 17: of when I was racist, when I was threatening to

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Speaker 17: do harm to leadership.

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Speaker 5: The result of all of that was that I was

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Speaker 5: found to.

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Speaker 17: Have questioned the competency and the decision making of the

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Speaker 17: leadership and the behavioral health division, and I was found

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Speaker 17: to have held up contracts that had compliance problems.

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Speaker 5: So let me just say I plead guilty to both

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Speaker 5: of those things.

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Speaker 17: I absolutely did both of those things, and I'm doing

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Speaker 17: both of those things today.

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Speaker 5: I am very.

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Speaker 17: Much questioning the competency of the leadership of the Department

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Speaker 17: of Human Services. And I hate to do that because

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Speaker 17: these are people I know very well. I think I

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Speaker 17: know Commissioner Gandhi very well. I've had a lot of

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Speaker 17: contact with her, a lot of time with her. But

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Speaker 17: the actions, the mindset I heard you use the term

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Speaker 17: fraud prevention mindset that is not present. That is not

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Speaker 17: present at the Department of Human Services. I don't know

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Speaker 17: if I would dare to use the word compassion, because

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Speaker 17: compassion sounds.

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Speaker 5: As if it is the right thing to do. Compassion

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Speaker 5: when huge amounts of money are stolen is not the

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Speaker 5: right thing to do.

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Speaker 17: There has been just tremendous mistakes, and yes, I.

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Speaker 5: Have been affected.

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Speaker 17: I certainly did not appreciate being humiliated and being accused

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Speaker 17: of of a race crime.

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Speaker 5: I certainly did not appreciate that.

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Speaker 17: But more importantly, when we think about people this winter

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Speaker 17: had fingers and toes frozen off, because the Department of

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Speaker 17: Human Services had to shut down a program, so people

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Speaker 17: without homes had real consequences, much more serious consequences than

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Speaker 17: I had.

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Speaker 1: And again it's a real good example of just how

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Speaker 1: the Democrats do not stand behind that which they push.

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Speaker 1: They're willing to go and cost pain to anybody, including

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Speaker 1: their own base of voters, in order to achieve their agenda.

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Speaker 1: I have one more clip to share of this DHS

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Speaker 1: whistleblower Faye Bernstein yesterday, but to get you back up

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Speaker 1: to speed, and we'll get back to the Democrats blocking

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Speaker 1: this legislation to clean the motor the medicaid roles, trying

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Speaker 1: to bring this in line with the one big beautiful bill.

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Speaker 1: But let me remind you yesterday there was supposed to

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Speaker 1: be members of the Walls Administration in that hearing to

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Speaker 1: hear that very testimony and to respond to all of this,

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Speaker 1: and they didn't bother to show up. To the comment

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Speaker 1: that we had from the front of the show about

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Speaker 1: Republicans getting out there and letting this be known. Here

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Speaker 1: is more audio from representatives laying out in detail said

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Speaker 1: online about what actually transpired during the legislative session in

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Speaker 1: this fraud hearing.

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Speaker 2: Yesterday. Oh this reps out of Ben Bakberg.

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Speaker 18: Want to just quickly give you an update from all

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Speaker 18: of the activity here at the Capital, specifically around fraud.

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Speaker 2: That's the biggest issue we need to address this year.

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Speaker 18: Today we had a DHS whistleblower testify about the culture

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Speaker 18: of retaliation and how this whistleblower was chased out and

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Speaker 18: retaliated against. DHS was invited to come and testify and

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Speaker 18: they refused to show up to testify to answer to

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Speaker 18: these allegations of whistleblower retaliation.

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Speaker 3: Before we begin, is there anyone in the Department of

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Speaker 3: Human Services in the audience? I don't see anyone, So

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Speaker 3: I just want to note for the record that DHS

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Speaker 3: was invited to be available in the audience to answer

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Speaker 3: questions today after Judge O'Malley's presentation, and they have apparently

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Speaker 3: declined to come, which is very frustrating. This is the

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Speaker 3: second hearing DHS has failed to appear at, and to.

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Speaker 18: Make it even worse, they showed up to that same

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Speaker 18: committee hearing room at the next committee hearing and Representive

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Speaker 18: Robbins asked them why they weren't there, and they were

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Speaker 18: just simply too busy to show up and address this

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Speaker 18: unacceptable behavior. Unacceptable that an agency is not taking things seriously.

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Speaker 18: We have got to address fraud here in Minnesota.

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Speaker 2: The OIG bill is one.

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Speaker 5: Place to do that, and we need to get.

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Speaker 2: That bill passed. Thank you. My name is Ben Bakberg.

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Speaker 4: It's a pleasure to serve you.

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Speaker 5: Hi.

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Speaker 4: It's Mark from New Brighton.

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Speaker 12: I mean, it's difficult to get on the airwaves in

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Speaker 12: the Twin Cities because basically all the local news channels

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Speaker 12: have their list, their role index of conventional wisdom experts

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Speaker 12: that you hear from on any political issue. David Schultz,

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Speaker 12: Katherine Karson, Larry Jacobs lately on care, this lazy rhin,

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Speaker 12: O'Brien mcclun. All you get is conventional wisdom. Getting a

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Speaker 12: message across is top.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a really gross attempts on our local media

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Speaker 1: in terms of bipartisanship to get these or you to

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Speaker 1: hear both sides of the story, but it rarely do

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Speaker 1: you get a really good idea on either side. There's

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Speaker 1: very little progress when it comes to the discussion because

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Speaker 1: they all take this very mamby pamby sort of middle

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Speaker 1: of the road stance, which is not representative of where

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Speaker 1: the actual beliefs and ideologies are of either party. All

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Speaker 1: this is hysterical, especially when you bring into light the

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Speaker 1: comments that Governor Tim Walls has made recently regarding fraud,

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Speaker 1: how much he cares about fraud, what he's planning on

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Speaker 1: doing about it when it comes to tackling fraud.

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Speaker 6: Expect for the next eleven months for me to ride

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Speaker 6: you like you've never.

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Speaker 1: Been ridden, unless I need to have DHS show up

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Speaker 1: at a fraud committee hearing, in which case we're just

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Speaker 1: going to blow that off.

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Speaker 4: You can trust me on this. The person who's angriest

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Speaker 4: about this fraud is me.

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Speaker 2: Apparently apparently not all right. Here's one more.

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Speaker 1: The conclusion of again DHS whistleblower Faye Bernstein's comments during

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Speaker 1: this fraud hearing yesterday, I.

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Speaker 5: Do not see how we can come through this.

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Speaker 17: And actually quit this year after year, decade after decade problem.

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Speaker 17: I do not see how we can come through this

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Speaker 17: without a massive change at the Department of Human Services

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Speaker 17: in our leadership. They're just really simply has to be firings.

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Speaker 5: And I hate to say that, I hate to see people.

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Speaker 17: Fired, but there is no other way to turn this around.

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Speaker 5: There really is no other way.

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Speaker 17: It is so entrenched that the need to retaliate against

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Speaker 17: people who speak up as I initially did in the

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Speaker 17: most benign ways. The need to retaliate against people like.

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Speaker 5: Me is so ingrained. It is through every step of

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Speaker 5: the process.

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Speaker 17: Every person that I spoke to about this as I

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Speaker 17: was working up the chain of command to try to

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Speaker 17: get the contract problem resolved, every person I encountered. I

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Speaker 17: look back now and I realize I didn't get a

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Speaker 17: satisfactory response from anyone, anyone, even our internal auditors.

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Speaker 5: I thought at the time. I thought at the time

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Speaker 5: I was being heard, and I now realize that I

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Speaker 5: wasn't at all. We have an OLA report, that is it.

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Speaker 5: I guess I could have written it.

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Speaker 17: It's exactly what I was saying seven years ago. So

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Speaker 17: thank you for letting me speak to this. It's very

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Speaker 17: important to me.

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Speaker 5: I think it's important to all of you, and I

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Speaker 5: hope you really hear what I'm saying about. We need

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Speaker 5: a dramastic, a dramatic change at the Department of Human Services.

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Speaker 4: Thank you.

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Speaker 2: Now, I haven't seen.

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Speaker 1: A single report countering the claims that she has put forward.

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Speaker 1: Are really any of the claims of the whistleblowers inside

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Speaker 1: of DHS, and again, you would have had the opportunity

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Speaker 1: from other DHS employees under Governor Tim Walls, had they

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Speaker 1: bothered to show up for the hearing, because I would

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Speaker 1: very much like to know what are their thoughts on

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Speaker 1: these whistleblower claims, but we don't know because the Walls

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Speaker 1: administration just decided to go and go to the hearing.

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Speaker 2: Altogether.

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Speaker 8: I applied this whistleblower for bringing attention to the cost

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Speaker 8: of this investigation and this is.

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Speaker 5: Coming out of our pockets.

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Speaker 8: The amount of waste and fraud in this state is

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Speaker 8: so infuriating.

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Speaker 18: It just means that DHS doesn't want to show up

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Speaker 18: and answer questions.

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Speaker 2: That means they're guilty of what they're doing because they

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Speaker 2: can't defend themselves.

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Speaker 1: Democrats continue to block legislation to clean up the Medicaid

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Speaker 1: voter roles to bring us into compliance with the federal

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Speaker 1: government via the One Big Beautiful Bill, two bills that

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Speaker 1: were considered ensuring the state conforms with the Medicaid provisions

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Speaker 1: of the ob three. Both of those bills authored by

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Speaker 1: GOP Representative Danny Nadu. Speaking about the need for federal conformity,

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Speaker 1: Republican representative Jeff Backer said that when the parents of

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Speaker 1: the federal government gives you money, they set guardrails. I

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Speaker 1: think it's a huge irresponsibility if we don't conform with

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Speaker 1: the one Big Beautiful bill. Back Er warned that nonconformity

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Speaker 1: would harm Minnesota's healthcare system to the tune of anywhere

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Speaker 1: from three to three and a half billion dollars in

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Speaker 1: more now. Eventually, the committee tried to send this bill

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Speaker 1: to another House committee for consideration.

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Speaker 2: However, that vote failed.

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Speaker 1: Eleven to eleven Republicans voted to advance the bill, dfllers

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Speaker 1: voted against it. Afterwards, the Health Committee considered the other bill,

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Speaker 1: HF thirty seven to sixty three, that would ensure Minnesota

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Speaker 1: law conforms with the new Medicaid work requirements. In short,

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Speaker 1: a Medicaid recipient either needs to work twenty hours a

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Speaker 1: week or receive an exemption to that requirement. Veterans, the disabled,

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Speaker 1: participants and drug and alcohol recovery programs, and parents of

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Speaker 1: young children are among those who can receive that exception

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Speaker 1: to the work requirement. Like the previous bill, the vote

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Speaker 1: to send HF thirty seven to sixty three to another

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Speaker 1: House committee failed eleven to eleven, and along party lines,

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Speaker 1: Republicans voted for the advancement voted against it. As such,

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Speaker 1: HF thirty seven sixty three will also stay in the

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Speaker 1: Health Committee. And I find this also amusing because Aaron Kolgel,

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Speaker 1: a dfller, had posted overnight complaining about a transportation hearing

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Speaker 1: and her assertion that the GOP doesn't want to address

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Speaker 1: any issues that they bring up.

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Speaker 2: Well, now you know what it feels like.

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Speaker 1: Except the difference is the GOP is actually trying to

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Speaker 1: do something in this case to tackle fraud medicaid spending,

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Speaker 1: wherein all the Democrats want to do is avoid that,

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Speaker 1: not answer questions about fraud, and then take more money

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Speaker 1: from you. To that point, many Minnesotans have expressed frustration

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Speaker 1: about the stubbornly high license tab fees on their vehicles

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Speaker 1: that result the results of the changes made during the

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty three DFL Trifecta legislative session. The tax rate

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Speaker 1: went up and the rate of depreciation of vehicles will

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Speaker 1: slowed dramatically. Now I'll bring you details on this, but

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Speaker 1: let me share with you this clip before we take

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Speaker 1: a quick break and dive into our three here on

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Speaker 1: twin Cities News Talk. This is Representative luber Nikolai, a

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Speaker 1: Democrat out of Saint Paul, talking about offering up an

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Speaker 1: amendment to increase the rates of the registration fees so

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Speaker 1: that we can fund other projects. Let me give you

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Speaker 1: the baseline of what this would do, and then I'll

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Speaker 1: play the clip for you. We'll take a quick break.

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Speaker 1: What she's proposing here would equal a three six hundred

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Speaker 1: and fifty dollars payment on a two year old, fifty

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Speaker 1: thousand dollars vehicle in Hennepin County. Every year, you would

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Speaker 1: have to pay close to four thousand dollars a year

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Speaker 1: to register your vehicle under this ludicrous proposal. We'll get

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Speaker 1: to your thoughts coming up next here on Twin City's

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Speaker 1: News Talk.

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Speaker 19: Us all to agree on the importance of raising revenue,

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Speaker 19: and so at some point may offer an amendment to

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Speaker 19: quintuple the rates of these registration fees so that we

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Speaker 19: may fund other projects in the state that everybody deems worthy.

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Speaker 4: I try harder not to suck