If Democrats are upset, perhaps they should be reconsidering the notion that the federal government should pay for everything. Oh, and keeping a tighter control on all that money
Trump administration reportedly freezes all childcare payments to all states
The Department of Health and Human Services is freezing all childcare payments to all states, an official for Donald Trump’s administration told ABC News in a report published Wednesday. States’ funds will be released “only when states prove they are being spent legitimately”.
The report came a day after Jim O’Neill, the HHS deputy secretary, and Alex Adams, an HHS assistant secretary who oversees the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), appeared in a Tuesday evening video message. O’Neill declared that the department had “activated our defend-the-spend system for all ACF childcare payments across America” and would now require “justification, receipt or photo evidence before we make a payment”.
Originally, O’Neill and Adams’s message was interpreted as an announcement that HHS would stop childcare funding in Minnesota, not all 50 states. However, the Associated Press reported late on Wednesday that the freeze would apply to every state, and that all states would need to provide more documentation about their childcare programs before receiving federal money.
The department did not immediately reply to a Guardian request for comment to clarify the nature of the freeze, but HHS spokesperson Andrew Nixon told ABC News: “It’s the onus of the state to make sure that these funds, these federal dollars, taxpayer dollars, are being used for legitimate purposes.”
Is it that difficult for Democrat run governments and all the Democrat bureaucrats in government to not be shady? To stop giving money to NGOs and groups and completely not bother accounting for it? They aren’t failing, because, failing would imply that they actually tried. They just do not care to try. Now, if they want the money they are going to have show they are safeguarding the People’s Money properly.
Any welfare system, every welfare system is going to have fraud, because fraudsters are a lot smarter than government bureaucrats. The only way to eliminate fraud in welfare systems is to eliminate welfare systems.
Now do the Department of War where we spend about one trillion (T) every year!!! The only way to eliminate Department of War fraud is to eliminate the Department of War systems.
Next do Social Security welfare system ($1.5 trillion) and Medicare/Medicaid welfare systems ($1.8 trillion)! The working class is not bankrupting America, seniors are!! The only way to eliminate fraud in senior welfare systems is to eliminate senior welfare systems.
Fraud?
What fraud, racist?
Now we see why democratic party run states dont seem to care about curbing fraud: the money comes from the federal treasury, not their own.
“For Fiscal Year 2025, the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) is funded at $8.75 billion nationally, part of a total $12.3 billion in Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) resources. Funding is distributed to states based on a formula considering the number of children under age 13, the number of children receiving free or reduced-price lunches, and state per capita income.”
The administration has halted all payments to all states, presumably including red states like Texas, Florida, Kentucky, Missouri, Alaska etc. We’ll see how HHS prefentially punishes blue state Americans.
These subsidies permit working class parents to work.
Now do DOD fraud!!!
MAGA47 Motherfuckers!!!
White, U.S. citizen (born Chicago, 1968) Philip Esformes is a former healthcare executive and nursing home mogul primarily known for orchestrating what the DOJ described as the largest healthcare fraud scheme in the country’s history (Medicaid fraud involving about $1.3 billion in fraudulent claims). He was convicted in 2019 for healthcare fraud, illegal kickbacks, bribery, and money laundering and sentenced to 20 years in prison.
President Donald Trump commuted his sentence in 2020, encouraged by input from Son-in-Law Jared Kushner Trump.
Philip Esformes’ father was Morris Esformes (1946–2022), a prominent Chicago-based nursing home magnate, philanthropist, and ordained Orthodox rabbi. Between 1998 and 2013, the father and son paid over $20 million in settlements to the U.S. government to resolve allegations of kickbacks and substandard care at their facilities.
President Donald Trump commuted Philip’s prison sentence in 2020. Esformes was arrested on domestic violence charges in Oct 2024, but charges were dropped.
See also Senator Rick Scott (R-FL) Fraud, settled with the U.S. for $1.7 billion. Scott was “sentenced” to 6 years as a U.S. Senator!!!
Life is easier here if you are white and rich!