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BumRushDaShow

(165,420 posts) Wed Dec 31, 2025, 07:09 AM 13 hrs ago

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz hits back as Trump administration freezes state's child care funds amid fraud claims

Source: The Independent

Tuesday 30 December 2025 21:06 EST

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has sharply criticized the Trump administration Tuesday over its decision to pause federal child care funds to the state after an influencer’s video went viral alleging widespread fraud there in government programs.

“This is Trump’s long game,” Walz, who was on the Democratic ticket against Trump in 2024, wrote on X. “We’ve spent years cracking down on fraudsters. It’s a serious issue - but this has been his plan all along. He’s politicizing the issue to defund programs that help Minnesotans.”

The comments came as the Department of Health and Human Services announced that it was freezing child care payments to the state.

In a post on X, HHS credited the stop to allegations from a video by right-wing content creator Nick Shirley, which claimed daycare centers run by people of Somali descent in Minnesota are responsible for “potentially the largest fraud scandal in U.S. history.”

Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/tim-walz-trump-fraud-somali-b2892474.html

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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz hits back as Trump administration freezes state's child care funds amid fraud claims (Original Post) BumRushDaShow 13 hrs ago OP

GQP's goal is to defund blue states.................... Lovie777 13 hrs ago #1

Then, we need to stop paying them. OldBaldy1701E 11 hrs ago #7

This is a Trump wet dream - a blue state with a governor he hates and a group of people he's always hated involved. Vinca 13 hrs ago #2

Looks like there is a lot of fraud hueymahl 13 hrs ago #3

Post removed Post removed 12 hrs ago #5

Godfather 2 Homage? OC375 13 hrs ago #4

This message was self-deleted by its author rampartd 12 hrs ago #6

No OC375 8 hrs ago #8

This message was self-deleted by its author rampartd 8 hrs ago #9

10-4 OC375 8 hrs ago #10

Trump administration reportedly freezes all childcare payments to all states Eugene 3 hrs ago #11

WTF?!! electric_blue68 2 hrs ago #12

Lovie777

(21,626 posts)

1. GQP's goal is to defund blue states....................

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Wed Dec 31, 2025, 07:14 AM

13 hrs ago

although they pay federal taxes. It's cruel, but that's the point.

OldBaldy1701E

(10,093 posts)

7. Then, we need to stop paying them.

Reply to Lovie777 (Reply #1)

Wed Dec 31, 2025, 08:53 AM

11 hrs ago

Until he does things as they are supposed to be done.

But we won't.

Vinca

(53,288 posts)

2. This is a Trump wet dream - a blue state with a governor he hates and a group of people he's always hated involved.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Wed Dec 31, 2025, 07:26 AM

13 hrs ago

If there's fraud, of course it should be addressed, but it doesn't make sense to deprive every kid in the state from a service they may need. The thought that a 34 time over felon convicted of fraud is supposedly rooting out fraud is another matter.

hueymahl

(2,890 posts)

3. Looks like there is a lot of fraud

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Wed Dec 31, 2025, 07:36 AM

13 hrs ago

But this is throwing the baby out with the bathwater

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OC375

(418 posts)

4. Godfather 2 Homage?

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Wed Dec 31, 2025, 07:40 AM

13 hrs ago

Criminal who wants something shaking down a politician with big problem to get it. Wonder what he’s after here to call it a win? Maybe the hunt itself is the win?

Response to OC375 (Reply #4)

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OC375

(418 posts)

8. No

Reply to rampartd (Reply #6)

Wed Dec 31, 2025, 12:10 PM

8 hrs ago

I was saying Trump wants something and is trying to leverage the situation to get it, he's not trying fix the situation, let alone fix it because he cares about addressing fraud.

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OC375

(418 posts)

10. 10-4

Reply to rampartd (Reply #9)

Wed Dec 31, 2025, 12:20 PM

8 hrs ago

Eugene

(66,757 posts)

11. Trump administration reportedly freezes all childcare payments to all states

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Wed Dec 31, 2025, 05:41 PM

3 hrs ago

Trump administration reportedly freezes all childcare payments to all states (The Guardian)

Trump official says funds will be released ‘only when states prove they are being spent legitimately’

The Department of Health and Human Services is freezing all childcare payments to all states, an official for Donald Trump’s administration told ABC News in a report published Wednesday, just hours after department officials announced that they had frozen childcare funding to Minnesota.

States’ funds, the unnamed official said, will be released “only when states prove they are being spent legitimately”.

The department did not immediately reply to a Guardian request for comment on the report, but HHS spokesperson Andrew Nixon told ABC News that “it’s the onus of the state to make sure that these funds, these federal dollars, taxpayer dollars, are being used for legitimate purposes”.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/31/trump-administration-childcare-funding-freeze

electric_blue68

(25,726 posts)

12. WTF?!!

Reply to Eugene (Reply #11)

Wed Dec 31, 2025, 05:51 PM

2 hrs ago

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