Trump administration freezes childcare funding to Minnesota in wake of fraud scheme allegations

Officials claim to find rampant fraud' in childcare funding, but prosecutions began in Biden era and Tim Walz says we've spent years cracking down on it'

The Trump administration announced on Tuesday that it is freezing federal funding for childcare programs in Minnesota after allegations of fraud - first exposed and prosecuted during the Biden administration - recently became the focus of conservative influencers and media outlets.

Jim O'Neill, the deputy secretary of health and human services, said in a video statement that the funding freeze was in response to what he called blatant fraud that appears to be rampant in Minnesota and across the country ... We have turned off the money spigot and we are finding the fraud."