A now-viral investigative video showing empty or barely functioning daycare centers receiving millions in public funds has exposed what many Minnesotans have long suspected — that the state’s social-services funding pipeline has been riddled with fraud, lax oversight, and ideological blinders so thick they border on willful negligence.

This wasn’t a one-off oversight. Reports now suggest tens of millions — and potentially far more — flowed through Minnesota’s childcare and social-services programs without proper verification. That doesn’t happen overnight. It doesn’t happen quietly. And it doesn’t happen without people inside the system ignoring red flags or actively enabling the fraud.

This scandal is bigger than one daycare center and bigger than one viral video. It strikes at the credibility of government itself.

When taxpayers are told their money is funding childcare and education — and it instead disappears into empty buildings and shell operations — faith in the system collapses. And rightly so.

Governor Walz may continue to spin, minimize, and justify his so-called reforms. He may insist this was all somehow unavoidable. He may hope the news cycle moves on.

But the facts remain:

Millions vanished. Oversight failed. Fraud flourished. Accountability lagged.

Minnesotans — and taxpayers nationwide — deserve justice, not talking points.

Walz may not want to fess up.

But prosecutors should force him to.

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