'Weird timing': Dem uses Tim Walz attack to hit back at GOP subpoena targeting him

A Democrat used a popular Tim Walz line to hit back at Republicans on his GOP-led House committee after it subpoenaed the vice presidential nominee and Minnesota governor.

Virginia Foxx, chair of the House Education and Workforce Committee, took to X on Wednesday to reshare her committee's announcement that it had issued a subpoena for Walz to compel him to hand over records stemming from his handling of a $250 million fraud scheme involving the Minnesota-based nonprofit Feeding our Future.

"Time for answers," Foxx (R-NC) wrote in the post.

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The committee's post asked, "How much did the governor know about the criminal activity that stole $250 million in taxpayer funds intended to feed children in need?"

Axios reported Wednesday that the move was among a flurry of new House Republican probes targeting Walz and Vice President Kamala Harris. The moves also sparked fears among some in the GOP that the probes could backfire and inadvertently make Walz and Harris look like martyrs.

Rep. Bobby Scott (D-Va.), who is the top Democrat on the committee, suggested that the probe is politically motivated.

"The timing of the Republican's subpoena to Governor Walz is weird," he told Axios, a nod toward Democratic lines of attack against Sen. J.D. Vance and former President Donald Trump.