Posted on 01/02/2026 8:46:00 PM PST by Morgana
Minnesota officials have less than one week to provide the Trump administration with information about providers and parents who receive federal child care funds or risk losing potentially millions of dollars in federal funding, state officials said Friday.
In an email sent Friday to child care providers shared with The Associated Press by a number of providers, Minnesota's Department of Children, Youth, and Families said it has until Jan. 9 to provide a set of verifying information about recipients.
The announcement earlier this week by the Trump administration that it would freeze child care funds to Minnesota and the rest of the states comes after a series of fraud schemes at Minnesota day care centers, many run by Somalis and Somali Americans.
The move came after a right-wing influencer alleged there were widespread abuses.
The Administration for Children and Families, a division of the Department of Health and Human Services, provides $185 million in child care funds annually to Minnesota, federal officials have said.
The email instructed providers and families who rely on the frozen federal child care program to continue the program's "licensing and certification requirements and practices as usual."
It does not say that recipients themselves need to take any action or provide any information.
"We recognize the alarm and questions this has raised," the email said. "We found out about the freezing of funds at the same time everyone else did on social media."
The state agency added that it "did not receive a formal communication from the federal government until late Tuesday night," which was after HHS Deputy Secretary Jim O'Neill posted about the freeze on X.
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That’s why the Somalians have commenced with the stupid alleged break in storylines about break ins to steal their day care records so they do not have to turn the non existent records over. You can’t have records when you don’t have any day care children to record. A second day care owner has followed the first one claiming his records were stolen in a break in. There will be more
Oh, I’m sure they’ll get right on that.
In what world?
Their game plan is to stall and then show crying “parents” and children because the meanie wanted to insure we weren’t going to keep throwing billions into the fraud toilet...count on it - they don’t care about hurting families or the kids - they care about raking in millions of taxpayer money for their own enrichment.
The reply to that would be easy.
“You’re on welfare, don’t work and have absolutely no need for child care. You’re under arrest for welfare fraud. You can pay the US citizens back in full for all of your fraudulent payments today, or by tomorrow your sorry butt will be on a plane heading to Africa. Your choice.”
And if they do pay back, they still get deported.
They should have cut off the funds first.
“You can’t have records when you don’t have any day care children to record”
The “records” are being created by Democrat operatives over the weekend.
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