US Freezing Childcare Payments to Minnesota Pending Fraud Probe

The Department of Health and Human Services is freezing all childcare payments to Minnesota in response to allegations that the state “funneled millions of taxpayer dollars to fraudulent daycares,” HHS Deputy Secretary Jim O’Neill says in a post on X.

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