The Trump administration has frozen federal child care funding to all 50 states, plus the District of Columbia and U.S. territories. The Department of Health and Human Services says it’ll only restore federal grants under the Child Care and Development Fund to states that provide more verification and administrative data about the funds they receive. The nationwide freeze comes after HHS officials cut off funding to Minnesota, citing a series of fraud schemes uncovered in that state, and after Vice President JD Vance and other Trump administration officials amplified a deceptively edited video posted by the far-right influencer Nick Shirley, who recently visited Somali-owned daycare sites in Minnesota and alleged — with little evidence — he’d uncovered over $100 million in fraud.