RINO politicians love to talk tough about gutting out fraud in our state and reducing spending, however, when it comes time to act, the story always changes. In the Health omnibus spending bill (HF2435) that funds abortion and Planned Parenthood that A4L recently reported on, there is also big money spent for child care programs riddled with fraud.

Some provisions in the 247 page bill add regulations on child care centers to require the use of cameras in the facilities (with money spent for camera grants) or require they sign off that the information they submitted for the grant money was accurate or face penalty of perjury. However, another provision appears to be forcing local counties to have less oversight on these programs (as seen in the MN House Research Department's Bill Summary of HF2435). See below:

Fraud within the Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP) has been a hot-button issue for years that A4L has been on top of since 2019. Republican legislators are well aware of the massive fraud that has been going on, especially as KSTP has reported that one day care center in Minneapolis, Quality Learning Center Daycare, had 95 violations from 2019 to 2023 yet still received $7.8M of tax dollars! With several other examples of fraud also publicly available, the program should be defunded and eliminated.

CCAP encompasses several different programs including the Minnesota Family Investment Program (MFIP). In the abortion and Planned Parenthood funding bill, HF2435, the MFIP gets over $237M over the next two years. Sadly, this is a massive INCREASE in spending compared to what the MFIP got during the Democrat trifecta in the 2023 spending bill! When Republicans finally have power, they run to the left instead holding their ground on the right. What is the point of Republicans having the Speakership and a 67 member voting block if spending increases with them in power? See spending below:

2023 Bill Funding 2024-2025

2025 Bill Funding 2026-2027

RINOs like House Speaker Lisa Demuth previously talked tough on CCAP fraud and demand investigations like can be seen below:

Unfortunately, when it comes time to DEFUND the fraud RINOs instead vote for unconstitutional omnibus bills that give these programs huge money. A4L reported in March of this year that RINOs would do as much on CCAP. 

When A4L President Erik Mortensen was in the legislature, he authored a bill that would have defunded and eliminated CCAP. RINOs refused to co-sponsor the legislation and preferred to enable big government. There will undoubtedly be more child care fraud and all RINOs who voted for this bill be responsible.

With CCAP existing as one of the biggest examples of fraud being fully funded by House Dems and Republicans in this bill, it becomes clear that RINOs are simply playing performative, WWE-style politics. The House Republicans love to tout their ‘Fraud Committee’ that has no subpoena or legislative power but 29 of them have allowed a corrupt program to continue receiving massive funding. This includes the committee’s Chair, RINO Kristin Robbins, who voted for the bill and is the leader of the fake, pro-lockdown Never Again Bill that waters down and grifts off of the work of Erik Mortensen’s Never Again Bill. Robbins is listed on a MPR article as "considering it" for a U.S. Senate run but she may have trouble winning conservative voters with her liberal, big government voting record.

Action 4 Liberty will continue to expose corruption within our state and be the leading conservative voice for the grassroots. We will never cave on principles and will always hold crooked politicians accountable. No amount of pressure from the Establishment will make us change because our mission to protect liberty for the next generation is just too important. State GOP leaders have refused to genuinely take up that mantle so conservatives looking for real Constitutionalist voices in MN will continue to look to A4L.