Trump admin freezes child care funds to Minnesota over fraud schemes

President Donald Trump's administration announced on Tuesday that it's freezing child care funds to Minnesota after a series of fraud schemes in recent years. Acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Jim O'Neill announced on the social platform X that the step is in response to 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, he said. O'Neill said all payments through the Administration for Children and Families, an agency within the U.S. Health and Human Services Department, will require justification and a receipt or photo evidence before money is sent. They have also launched a fraud-reporting hotline and email address, he said. The announcement comes after years of investigation that began with the $300 million scheme at the nonprofit Feeding Our Future, for which 57 defendants in Minnesota have been convicted. Prosecutors said the organization was at the cent