Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) is set to face impeachment hearings when the Minnesota state legislature returns to session in February.
State Rep. Mike Wiener (R ), who represents District 5B in Minnesota’s House, filed articles of impeachment against Walz on Jan. 12, according to the politician’s Facebook page. Wiener’s efforts stem from the governor’s alleged “corrupt” conduct while in office and are related to recent revelations of rampant fraud within Minnesota’s “state-administered programs.”
Wiener’s impeachment articles claimed that, “Timothy J. Walz has engaged in corrupt conduct in office by violating his constitutional oath to faithfully execute the laws of this state,” reported FOX 9 News in Minnesota. Wiener argued that taxpayers demand “accountability of their elected officials.”
“The taxpayers have been frauded [sic] of an estimated $9 billion. They are demanding accountability of their elected officials,” Wiener told FOX 9. “No one is above the law, and our constitution gives us the tools to hold the governor accountable for ‘corrupt conduct.’”
He filed four articles of impeachment against Walz, detailing the accusations of wrongdoing for each.
In the first article of impeachment, Wiener claimed that Walz “violated his constitutional oath of office by knowingly concealing or permitting the concealment of widespread fraud within Minnesota state administered programs, despite repeated warnings, audits, reports, and public indicators of systematic abuse.” Walz is accused of being informed of the fraud “through briefings, audits, agency reports, or public findings, of substantial and ongoing fraud within State programs involving taxpayer funds.”
Furthermore, Walz is accused of failing to take “timely and effective action to hold such fraud despite possessing executive authority to do so,” allowing “fraudulent activity to continue after credible warnings were raised,” and creating an environment where “disclosure of fraud was delayed, minimized, or obscured from legislators and the public.”
In the other articles, Walz is accused of further wrongdoings such as taking action “that delayed corrective reforms,” failing to hold people accountable and “remove, discipline, or track senior officials responsible for overseeing programs later found to be fraudulent,” prioritizing the “preservation of political narratives over disclosure of known program failures,” and allowing “executive agencies to continue operations without adequacy of guards after fraud risks were identified,” among others.
A draft copy of the full impeachment articles can be found on FOX 9’s report, here.
Currently, 10 Republican colleagues in the House are supporting the impeachment efforts, Wiener told FOX 9.
WHAT’S THE MATTER WITH MINNESOTA?
Minnesota’s state legislature resumes session on Feb. 17. For Wiener’s articles of impeachment to advance, it would need the support of the majority of the Minnesota House in a vote. If that happens, the articles advance to the Minnesota Senate, where it would require the support of two-thirds of the Senate to remove Walz from office.
Walz originally announced he was running for reelection in Sept. 2025. However, after the revelations of fraud in his state, he announced on Jan. 5, that he was no longer running for reelection.
