Trump Ends TPS For Somalis In Minnesota After Explosive Report Reveals Welfare Fraud Network Funding Overseas Terror

President Trump announced Friday night that he is ending Temporary Protected Status for Somalis in Democrat-run Minnesota, following a bombshell report published in the City Journal that revealed large-scale welfare fraud tied to parts of Minnesota’s Somali community that funneled money overseas, including to a terrorist organization. 

“Minnesota, under Governor Waltz, is a hub of fraudulent money laundering activity,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

He continued, “I am, as President of the United States, hereby terminating, effective immediately, the Temporary Protected Status (TPS Program) for Somalis in Minnesota. Somali gangs are terrorizing the people of that great State, and BILLIONS of Dollars are missing. Send them back to where they came from. It’s OVER! President DJT.” 

Investigative journalists Ryan Thorpe and Christopher F. Rufo’s report in the City Journal revealed that billions in taxpayer funds were stolen through Medicaid programs, childcare-meal reimbursements, and autism-services schemes by Minnesota’s Somali community. These funds then ultimately ended up in the hands of the terror group Al-Shabaab. 

BREAKING: “The Minnesota tax payers are funneling money through FRAUDULENT autism claims back to Somalia where that money lands in the accounts of Al-Shabaab.”

Al-Shabaab is “an Al-Qaeda linked Islamic terror group.”

Deport every single one of them & arrest anyone who helped. pic.twitter.com/PXFiJ0s76S

— Derrick Evans (@DerrickEvans4WV) November 21, 2025

“This is a third-rail conversation, but the largest funder of Al-Shabaab is the Minnesota taxpayer,” a source told the journalists, adding, ”There is an issue here that is real, and if there is ever an event that is traceable back to these funds, or to people from this area, then this situation will take on a whole new set of optics.”

Just shocking.

BREAKING – It has been revealed that Somalians in Minnesota have been using fraudulent autism Medicare claims to fund the Somali terror group Al-Shabaab, with claims rising from $3 million in 2018 to $399 million in 2023, effectively making Minnesota taxpayers the group’s largest… pic.twitter.com/SXOqi7VJ1m

— Right Angle News Network (@Rightanglenews) November 20, 2025

Rufo’s report has unleashed a massive burst of nationwide media attention on the corruption over the last several days. This suggests that much greater reforms are coming, likely in the name of national security (cc Rubio). It’s also possible that the Manhattan Institute already has an executive-order framework queued up for the White House.

Meanwhile, the anti-American, anti-capitalist Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota is furious with the Trump administration. She wrote on X: 

I am a citizen and so are majority of Somalis in America. Good luck celebrating a policy change that really doesn’t have much impact on the Somalis you love to hate. We are here to stay

I am a citizen and so are majority of Somalis in America. Good luck celebrating a policy change that really doesn’t have much impact on the Somalis you love to hate. We are here to stay https://t.co/JHSO3PKL6O

— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) November 22, 2025

“It’s not surprising that the President has chosen to broadly target an entire community. This is what he does to change the subject,” Gov. Tim Walz wrote on X. Like many Democrats pushing back on Trump, leftist Walz notably failed to mention Rufo’s report.

It’s not surprising that the President has chosen to broadly target an entire community. This is what he does to change the subject.https://t.co/pv8OJWUxR1

— Governor Tim Walz (@GovTimWalz) November 22, 2025

Rufo’s report created the outage in the news cycle. What comes next is usually reforms. The Democratic Party’s suicidal empathy has resulted in Minnesota taxpayers becoming the largest funders of the Al-Shabaab terror group. This is insane and also nation-killing.