Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced that the Treasury Department was investigating reports that Minnesota taxpayer funds “may have been diverted to the terrorist organization” Al-Shabaab.

In a post on X, Bessent said the agency was “investigating allegations that under the feckless mismanagement” of former President Joe Biden’s administration and Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN), taxpayer money in the state was ending up in the hands of terrorists.

Bessent also praised President Donald Trump for his leadership, and said the agency was “acting fast to ensure” that American citizens’ taxes were not going to “funding acts of global terror.”

“At my direction, @USTreasury is investigating allegations that under the feckless mismanagement of the Biden Administration and Governor Tim Walz, hardwo

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