And a federal judge will be issuing a restraining order blocking this in 10, 9, 8 …

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Happy New Year: Trump Pausing Child Care Payments to All States, Not Just MN, Pending Records Reviews

In the wake of explosive fraud allegations in Minnesota and, now, Washington State, the Trump administration is freezing child care payments to all states pending a review of recipient data by the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS).

According to HHS spokesperson Andrew Nixon, all recipients of funding are required to send data to HHS for review; recipients who are not suspected of fraudulent activity are only required to submit "administrative data," but those recipients who are suspected of fraudulent activity are required to submit additional records:

Nixon said that recipients of federal funding in Minnesota and those “suspected of fraudulent activity” have to provide the HHS with additional records that include “attendance records, licensing, inspection and monitoring reports, complaints and investigations.”

…. According to Nixon, until individual state-level allocations can be vetted, no further funding will be disbursed.

While investigations have been ongoing in the state since May and nearly two dozen of indictments have already been returned, independent journalist Nick Shirley's viral video documenting numerous taxpayer-funded "learing" centers with zero children in attendance brought nationwide attention to the scandal. 

Cam Higby, another independent journalist, documented similar issues in Washington State.

In a Truth Social post, President Trump hinted that investigations and indictments will be finding their way to California, where RedState has reported on pandemic unemployment fraud thought to be close to $60 billion at last count, and where our ongoing investigation into federally-funded day care centers (which will be published in January) suggests that similar fraud schemes are being carried out. Trump said, "There is more FRAUD in California than there is in Minnesota, if that is even possible."

It's very possible, Mr. President.

Damn, just as New York’s own fraud program is gettig warmed up

Tax hike on NY workers will be needed to fund universal childcare program backed by Mamdani, Hochul: report

Workers in New York will have to pay higher taxes to fund the massive universal childcare program backed by incoming Big Apple Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Gov. Kathy Hochul, according to a new study.

The report from the liberal think tank the Fiscal Policy Institute found that tax hikes on corporations and millionaires alone won’t cover the $8 billion annual statewide bill for the program.

Other income earners will need to chip in, likely with a payroll-tax hike, to finance the pledged childcare for kids ages 6 months and up, said the labor-backed group.

It’s a safe bet that the tax hikes will prove permanent regardless of the eventual outcome of challenges to Trump’s order, because that’s just how these things work.

Besides, Mamdani has plenty of other grift programs in the pipeline: “The lefty pol has also vowed to quickly deliver on his big-ticket campaign promises such as offering city-run grocery stores, free buses and freezing rents — a slate of socialist freebies and other agenda items that are expected to cost more than $10 billion.”