In the political ring, it seems Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is playing quite the game of dodgeball, avoiding questions like they’re live grenades. Minnesota Republicans are turning up the heat, questioning her possible connection to a massive state fraud scheme. But instead of facing the music, we find Omar ducking and weaving, leaving everyone on hold as the story unfolds.

The issue at hand involves a perplexing financial discrepancy that has eyebrows raised. It appears Omar and her husband, Tim Minette, somehow skydived from being in debt to sitting on a fortune estimated between $6 million and $30 million by 2024. But wait, there’s more! In a plot twist worthy of a Hollywood blockbuster, a recent disclosure showed their assets mysteriously deflated to a figure somewhere between $18,000 and $95,000. Her office attempted to pull the oldest trick in the book, blaming the $29 million discrepancy on an accountant’s oversight. It’s a classic “my dog ate my homework” excuse that hasn’t been working since middle school.

But the plot thickens. Omar’s connection to something called the “Feeding Our Future” scandal adds more layers to this intriguing narrative. For those who haven’t been keeping up, this is about a cool $250 million of taxpayer dollars billed for meals that never made it to hungry mouths. Omar, a loud advocate of the meals act allegedly responsible for removing essential checks and balances, is in the spotlight for making things a little too easy for fraudsters. Her cozy ties with the Safari Restaurant, a key player in the scandal, where she held campaign events, haven’t exactly helped her case, either.

Now, the Minnesota House Committee on Fraud Prevention wants answers to both cases—especially considering the Minnesotans have the enjoyable part called ‘paying taxes.’ Yet, Omar’s response has been radio silence, bunkering down and hoping this all blows over as easily as a cold in July. Minnesotans are weary of her nonchalant attitude, which seems to suggest that answering to the people who trusted her is a chore she’d rather skip.

Meanwhile, efforts to contact her office are met with more disappearing acts than a magician’s rabbit. We’re still left with her office’s barely convincing explanation of the financial mishap, which isn’t swaying anyone. The taxpayers in Omar’s district are frustrated, and rightly so. It seems to them like she’s treating this as a minor inconvenience, when, in reality, it’s emblematic of a deeper disregard for transparency and accountability. Until Omar decides to come out of hiding and face these music notes head-on, one thing is clear—Minnesotans and the rest of us will be waiting with bated breath for some good old-fashioned answers.