"The Republican chair of the Minnesota Fraud Committee, state representative Kristin Robbins, accused Governor Tim Walz of ignoring her repeated warnings about widespread fraud in the state's taxpayer-funded daycare system. Robbins, a declared GOP candidate for governor seeking to challenge Walz next year, says she alerted his administration last year to serious concerns that some daycare providers were siphoning off public funds despite extensive compliance violations. According to Robbins, those warnings were met with inaction."
"I gave the Department of Human Services a list of day care providers getting over $1 million in the previous year from the state who had numerous violations, and this day care was one of them on the list. They can't say they didn't know. We had a hearing on it. We gave them a list, and nothing has happened," she continued."
"They've started saying they are stopping payments to different programs and pausing new providers, which is welcome, but until this firestorm erupted, they've done nothing, she said. He has turned a blind eye for so long that he cannot deny there were so many whistleblower reports, so many media reports. For them to say we did not know is just not true."
Kristin Robbins, Republican chair of Minnesota’s Fraud Committee, accuses Governor Tim Walz of ignoring repeated warnings about fraud in taxpayer-funded daycare. Robbins provided the Department of Human Services with a list of providers receiving over $1 million who had numerous compliance violations and testified at a hearing that produced no action. A viral investigation showed several state-funded daycare facilities appearing to operate without children, prompting renewed scrutiny. Robbins says the administration only recently began halting payments and pausing new providers after public outcry and describes the issue as part of a broader pattern of fraud across multiple programs.
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