Posted on 12/30/2025 4:10:56 PM PST by Libloather
The Trump administration is cutting off all childcare payments to Minnesota and demanding a comprehensive audit of the state’s day care centers as a mushrooming billion-dollar fraud scandal engulfs the state’s human services department.
“We have frozen all child care payments to the state of Minnesota,” Deputy Health and Human Services Secretary Jim O’Neill wrote on X Tuesday afternoon, days after a viral video investigating alleged fraud at day care centers in the state drew national attention.
O’Neill said Minnesota has “funneled millions of taxpayer dollars to fraudulent daycares across Minnesota over the past decade,” and outlined three actions the department has taken in an attempt to cut off the flow of exploitable funds.
The first action will impose the requirement for “a receipt or photo evidence” for any payments made to states through the US Administration for Children & Families (ACF).
O’Neill said he has “demanded” Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz conduct a “comprehensive audit” of the centers highlighted.
“This includes attendance records, licenses, complaints, investigations, and inspections,” he writes.
He specifically cited YouTuber Nick Shirley’s video published on Friday, in which he visited day care centers across Minneapolis receiving millions in state funds that appeared to be closed or out of operation.
Third, HHS has launched a hotline and email address dedicated to reporting fraud at childcare.gov.
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Here comes the judge...wait for it.
Some Obama judge will probably block it.
There are judges involved in the scandal. Let’s see which ones object.
Excellent move by President Trump.
Trump will have a higher judge reverse that block.
All states identified, not just Minnesota.
GOOD.
We need to see some people in orange jumpsuits in the very near future.
And a whole lot more on the deport planes.
Better look at Washington state too.
The Governor just came out and supported the Somali community here, in the face of over 500 Somali day cares being exposed in the state
Starting to get hot for Turd Ferguson.
Yep, a judge (maybe somewhere in a distant state) is sure to turn the flow of money back on.
Insert squeaky faucet noises here.
The Blue-Red divide is in sharp relief. The Left will defend virtually anything that keeps it in power.
If you want us to look for a pattern, why did you just include SOME of the attorneys?
All three of these presumably Jewish idiots don’t realize they’ll be the main entree if Somalis & other Muslim immigrant groups ever decide to rise up.
What other states? I couldn’t find that in the link.
Turn off EVERY damned government “money spigot”! That’s OUR money!
Just found out there are about 15,000 Somalis in the Phoenix area. Doing some digging to see whether fraud is as pervasive here as it is in other states. We wouldn’t need to do this work if journalism was still alive in America.
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WINNING!!!!!!!!!!
This is what I voted for.
Maine is one. Portland ME has a large somali population.
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