{"id":18494,"date":"2026-02-01T14:22:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T14:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/gov-tim-walz-and-minnesota-ag-keith-ellison-will-testify-before-congress-2\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T14:22:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T14:22:29","slug":"gov-tim-walz-and-minnesota-ag-keith-ellison-will-testify-before-congress-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/gov-tim-walz-and-minnesota-ag-keith-ellison-will-testify-before-congress-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov. Tim Walz and Minnesota AG Keith Ellison will testify before Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and state Attorney General Keith Ellison will testify March 4 before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. The announcement of their joint appearance by by Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) is the latest development in his panel&#8217;s investigation into welfare fraud in Minnesota&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/01\/30\/congress\/walz-to-testify-00757018\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and state Attorney General Keith Ellison will testify March 4 before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. The announcement of their joint appearance by by Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) is the latest development in his panel&#8217;s investigation into welfare fraud in Minnesota&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}