Tax Dollars, Terror Ties, and the Machine That Protects Them

December 30, 2025 / Bill Wilson /

The GAO recently dropped a report showing how easily Obamacare’s insurance tax credits can be gamed. They created fake people, fake documents, fake income, and the system waved them right through. Billions in taxpayer subsidies are flowing to identities that don’t exist, while the government shrugs and keeps writing checks. This is what happens when sprawling programs are built with more ideology than guardrails. The Democratic political class keeps defending the structure, even as watchdogs say fraud is baked into it. Fraud, waste, and abuse aren’t side effects. They’ve become part of the operating model, and the people footing the bill are the very ones being told to “trust the system” as it leaks like a sieve.

Minnesota gives another example, and it’s even uglier. Medicaid and welfare fraud tied to Somali-run nonprofits already has cost taxpayers hundreds of millions. Some of those funds, according to federal investigators, made their way overseas, potentially into the hands of the terrorist group Al-Shabaab. That means Minnesotans unknowingly subsidized an international terrorist group through a domestic welfare pipeline. Instead of outrage, we’ve watched political leaders of a certain party persuasion dodge responsibility while activists play defense for the network. Programs meant to feed kids or help vulnerable families were twisted into cash machines for criminal enterprises, and the taxpayer absorbing the loss is treated like an afterthought.

This is where the political machinery steps in. When Donald Trump criticized Somali-linked fraud, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) fired back in the “Guardian,” calling his rhetoric racist and bigoted. She also excused the fraud itself, telling KATU that these abuses were the predictable result of rushed programs with weak guardrails, not wrongdoing tied to any particular community. That framing shifts attention away from the criminal networks involved and toward abstract “system flaws.” Convenient for politicians who championed the programs, but it does nothing to restore accountability. Corruption doesn’t flourish because of race. It flourishes when oversight collapses and elected officials protect the system that failed.

Taken together, Obamacare’s subsidy chaos and Minnesota’s welfare-fraud pipeline expose a pattern. Massive government programs become political ecosystems. Money moves. Allies benefit. Oversight lags. The fall guy is the tip of the spear, while the politicians who created the system and benefited from it are far back on the handle of culpability. And whenever someone demands accountability, the reply is to question motives instead of fixing the problem. Taxpayers keep paying the bill while justice bends under the weight of politics. Scripture is blunt about this. Proverbs 17:23 warns, “A wicked man accepts a bribe behind the back, to pervert the ways of justice.” When leaders protect broken systems rather than confront corruption, justice is exactly what gets perverted.

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