?Pillaged and plundered by Somali pirates? four moments from Mace questioning Walz
A supercut of four verbatim moments from Rep. Nancy Mace's questioning of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz at the March 4, 2026 House Oversight hearing on alleged misuse of federal funds, from accusing Walz of the worst fraud scandal in American history to the "34,200% increase" math exchange.
On March 4, 2026, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz testified before the House Oversight Committee on allegations of widespread fraud in Minnesota's COVID-era child nutrition programs, a scandal involving alleged misuse of hundreds of millions in federal funds. Rep. Nancy Mace questioned Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison.
This supercut stitches four verbatim moments from that questioning, each cut from the official C-SPAN feed and captioned word-for-word:
- "You have presided over one of the worst government fraud scandals in American history.", Mace's opening accusation.
- "You both allowed billions in these American taxpayer dollars to be pillaged and plundered by Somali pirates. You knew this was happening.", characterizing the alleged theft.
- "If you can't define what a woman is, you certainly can't define what fraud is.", after Walz declined to answer a question about defining "woman."
- "I'm Governor of South Carolina. You can sure as hell bet that I'm gonna know the math. The math is 34,200% increase.", after Walz said he didn't have autism-spending figures in front of him.
The allegations Mace describes are under investigation; Walz and Ellison contest her characterizations. C-SPAN's lower-third graphics are cropped from each segment.
Source: C-SPAN, March 4, 2026 hearing
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