Ohio GOP lawmakers seek day care fraud investigation after viral claims

The Columbus Dispatch ^ | Dec. 30, 2025 | Cole Behrens

[MinorityRepublican]

Some GOP Ohio lawmakers are calling for their fellow Republican state officials to investigate unproven claims spreading on social media about fraud among Columbus-area day cares.

But Republican Gov. Mike DeWine's office says attempts to defraud publicly funded day care are not new and the state already has safeguards in place to catch it.

The claims began to circulate after a viral video allegedly showing abandoned day cares among the Somali immigrant community in Minnesota led to a response from Vice President J.D. Vance, an Ohio native, and the FBI "surging" resources to investigate, according to USA TODAY.

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[kiryandil]

Some GOP Ohio lawmakers are calling for their fellow Republican state officials to investigate unproven claims spreading on social media about fraud among Columbus-area day cares.

"unproven claims"

Standard boiler-plate Democrat Gaslight Media phrasing.

We saw it with Covid, and with the stolen national "election" in 2020.

[JennysCool]

to investigate unproven claims spreading on social media

Yup. Democrat media slaves just never quit pushing their propaganda.

[MinorityRepublican]

For decades, the structure of US society, by intent and design, was remade to redistribute wealth, resources, property and opportunity from Americans to non-Americans.

These looted assets were then used to finance the Democrat Party and all its subsidiary schemes and structures.— Stephen Miller (@StephenM) December 30, 2025

[whitney69]

“...attempts to defraud publicly funded day care are not new and the state already has safeguards in place to catch it.”

Catch what? If there’s nothing there and can’t be, then why are they trying to stop an investigation to prove that as much as wrongdoing? If it was honest, then they have nothing to fear and an investigation will prove that and make them heroes for having something in place to stop the fraud if it existed. Anyone play poker? It’s called calling the bluff.

wy69

[whitney69]

“...attempts to defraud publicly funded day care are not new and the state already has safeguards in place to catch it.”

Catch what? If there’s nothing there and can’t be, then why are they trying to stop an investigation to prove that as much as wrongdoing? If it was honest, then they have nothing to fear and an investigation will prove that and make them heroes for having something in place to stop the fraud if it existed. Anyone play poker? It’s called calling the bluff.

wy69

[MinorityRepublican]

At this point, I am 100% certain that the magnitude of the fraud in federal entitlements (Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Welfare, Disability, etc) exceeds the combined sum of every private scam you’ve ever heard by FAR.

It’s not even close.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 11, 2025

[kiryandil]

Democrat Gaslight Media slaves: Only WE can prove claims - but we ain’t investigatin’, ‘cause Timpon, Ilhan “Benjamins” Omar and Keiff ElliSOB are our guys.