Advocates and providers are warning that if federal funding is withheld, legitimate day cares in Minnesota won’t be able to survive.
At risk is $185 million issued under the Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP). The annual funding is used to subsidize services for about 23,000 children from low-income families; the Trump administration is pledging to freeze this funding after YouTuber Nick Shirley alleged that about 10 day cares in Minneapolis are committing fraud by taking millions in government assistance without actually providing a day care service in return.
“We have turned off the money spigot, and we are finding the fraud,” Deputy Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Jim O’Neill said…