{"id":14399,"date":"2025-12-31T08:58:49","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T00:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/?p=14399"},"modified":"2025-12-31T08:58:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T00:58:53","slug":"live-updates-trump-administration-halts-minnesota-child-care-payments-amid-fraud-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/?p=14399","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: Trump administration halts Minnesota child care payments amid fraud scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"448\" height=\"277\" src=\"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/92.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/92.png 448w, https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/92-300x185.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced Tuesday that it is halting all child care payments to Minnesota, as the Trump administration has put fresh attention on a years-long fraud scandal in the North Star State.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe have frozen all child care payments to the state of Minnesota,\u201d HHS Deputy Secretary Jim O\u2019Neill wrote on the social platform X, noting that the department will also require photo evidence before sending any Administration for Children and Families funds to all 50 states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe have turned off the money spigot and we are finding the fraud,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Agencies from the FBI and Homeland Security to the Small Business Administration have launched actions in the Democratic-run state after a viral YouTube video brought renewed focus to the controversy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Minnesota fraud scheme\u2019s ringleader is white, but dozens of Somali people have been convicted and faced additional charges. GOP lawmakers in recent days have demanded further investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Elsewhere, the Trump administration\u2019s military operations to pressure Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro by targeting \u201cnarco-terrorists\u201d have also broadened to include a land attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The CIA carried out a drone strike on a port facility in Venezuela last week, The New York Times and CNN both reported. President Trump has described the operation publicly, on Friday and again Monday, saying a facility where boats would pick up drugs was \u201cknocked out.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump has nothing on his public schedule Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced Tuesday that it is halting all child care payments to Minnesota, as the Trump administration has put fresh attention on a years-long fraud scandal in the North Star State. \u201cWe have frozen all child care payments to the state of Minnesota,\u201d HHS Deputy Secretary Jim O\u2019Neill [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":14400,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1724,61],"class_list":["post-14399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","tag-trump","tag-usa"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.0 - 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