Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, speaking during a press briefing in New York last week. Ms. Noem characterized the deployment of federal agents to Minneapolis as a mission “to uncover the true corruption and theft that has happened.”
Children watching television at ABC Learning Center in Minneapolis in December. Minnesota is one of the states that was targeted for a freeze in child care subsidies and other funds.
The funding pause could jeopardize child care and other programs that serve hundreds of thousands of households in California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota and New York.
A Department of Health and Human Services spokesman cited “massive amounts of fraud” as the reason for the freeze, but did not provide evidence of fraud in four of the states.
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