According to Kristin Robbins, the GOP candidate for governor and rival of Walz.
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The governor of Minnesota and a former Vice-Presidential candidate allegedly ignored repeated notifications that some taxpayer-funded day care centers in the state could be involved in fraud, according to a state GOP lawmaker.
According to a story published by The New York Post, State Rep. Kristin Robbins (R-Maple Grove), chairwoman of the Minnesota Fraud Committee and a GOP candidate for governor, told the newspaper she informed Democratic Governor Tim Walz’s administration about her doubts after running a hearing on day care fraud in February 2024 — to no avail.
“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,” Robbins said outside the “Quality Learing [sic] Center” facility.
“They can’t say they didn’t know. We had a hearing on it. We gave them a list, and nothing has happened,” she claimed. “I find it shocking that this is still happening when we flagged something over and over again.”
The “Quality Learing Center,” the day care with the misspelled sign, took $4 million in state funds even though it reportedly has no children. The facility is at the center of a controversy about fraud accusations in Minnesota’s welfare system.
Robbins called on Walz to resign over the fraud scandals that have beleaguered Minnesota.
“He has turned a blind eye for so long that he cannot deny there were so many whistleblower reports, so many media reports,” Robbins fumed. “For them to say ‘We did not know’ is just not true.”
Walz’s office did not respond to The Post’s request for comment.
Nick Shirley, an independent journalist, released video footage last week that rapidly went viral of himself visiting the Quality Learing Center, and other day cares in the North Star State receiving taxpayer funding. He apparently found empty facilities bereft of kids.
“In Minnesota, we’ve been ground zero for fraud, unfortunately,” Robbins said. “This is a pattern across multiple programs, and despite numerous red flags, we keep seeing it.”
Robbins accused Walz — her potential 2026 gubernatorial race opponent — of ignoring longstanding fraud concerns until just in “the last couple of weeks.”
What’s happening in Minnesota is a microcosm of the immigriation fraud in our system. Politicans like it because they get power. Welfare cheats like it because they get rich.
But it’s a zero sum game, and they’re stealing both money and political power from Minnesotans. https://t.co/AHLc0QuaiP
— JD Vance (@JDVance) December 27, 2025
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