State oversight committee members accused Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) on Tuesday of playing a part in the Feeding Our Future scheme that stole more than $250 million from a federally funded child nutrition program.
At a Minnesota House fraud hearing, members of the GOP-led Minnesota House Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Policy Committee pointed to Omar’s sponsorship of a bill that drastically relaxed eligibility requirements for food distributors to be able to receive reimbursements through the meal delivery program.
In 2020, Omar introduced the Maintaining Essential Access to Lunch for Students Act, which granted waivers allowing nonschool-based distributors to participate in the program and claim compensation for the cost of meals supposedly served.
“The MEALS Act loosened the guardrails on the federal nutrition program that led to the scandal we now call Feeding Our Future,” said Minnesota state Rep. Kristin Robbins, the committee’s Republican chairwoman.
Omar’s legislation was meant to guarantee
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