Former Minnesota congresswoman Michele Bachmann says that Minnesota Democrats create inflated budgets so they can launder the extra money as grants to their friend’s NGOs “Here's the dirty secret that people don't understand about Minnesota. Progressive lawmakers have been inflating Minnesota's budget so they can create grants to fund nonprofits. That ultimately are for their friends, for their supporters, for their constituent groups. So our state budget is a pass-through entity. It's a financial funnel that goes from federal money, state money, to local money, but it goes through nonprofits. So friends of the progressives in Minnesota, who for decades have run this state, they create a nonprofit, they register with the Minnesota Secretary of State, And then all of a sudden they can receive funding. A lot of these jobs are no work jobs. So we are now not just fraud, but we're an intentional scam that's been going on for decades and decades in Minnesota.”