'The Cost of Doing Business?' HHS Bill Seeks to Continue Funding Daycare 'Grifts', Among Other Insanity

BY JEFF SKINNER 

STATEWIDE - News stories are exploding with controversy over daycare fraud from Somali immigrant-led child centers. The controversy has become so great that the Trump administration has moved to freeze all funding to Minnesota programs specifically until additional oversight measures are met. However, heritage citizens across the country are scratching their heads wondering why any administration would believe the issue of federal grifting is unique to just one program or even one state. In our own state of Ohio, Governor Mike DeWine has stated that immigrant-led fraud is simply 'the cost of doing business.'

Much of the controversy surrounding the alleged ‘daycare fraud’ comes from the removal of restrictions surrounding oversight of the deployment of federal childcare and development block grants. Under current rules and guidelines, many territories do not need to provide physical oversight or visits to centers to review documents, rosters and work done. In addition, payment methodology has been shifted recently from payments based on days attended by students to payments based on total enrollments for the year. This has led to much controversy surrounding allegations some centers are ‘fluffing’ enrollment numbers to increase payments.

Despite these concerns, the House and Senate are moving forward with two different versions of an HHS funding bill, with minimal variation between them, that not only will ensure these easily manipulated programs continue without scrutiny, but also asks for additional funding for items the conservative voting base has actively been fighting against for several years. 

The current iteration of the HHS appropriations bill, which was introduced on September 11, 2025, contains a provision to continue funding these initiatives without any changes to oversight. The current bill would actually increase funding to this program by large margins.

In addition to this bewildering move, the bill additionally offers funding and provisions to items the Republican base has actively fought against for several years, including funding DEI initiatives and increased migratory funding and support to bolster funding for immigrants across multiple sectors.

The bill asks for $5.6 billion for refugee assistance programs during a time when refugee programs are increasingly being scrutinized as being full of abuse.

The bill additionally asks for $12 million for the NIH to study unspecified 'anti-gun' research they argue is 'evidence based' to prevent firearm injury and 'crime.' While most voters would argue the issue is not related to 'guns' themselves as firearms are not sentient and do not fire themselves, the NIH is still bewildered enough by this issue that they feel they need an extra $12 million to investigate.

The bill also asks for additional millions to be spent on increasing 'diversity' in biomedical research. The issue of utilizing DEI programs to artificially inflate numbers of specific ethnicities or special interest groups in programs is one that has been championed by and large from the Republican party, a stark contrast from the funding initiatives contained in the bill introduced in the Republican controlled. The Senate is additionally asking for $65 million for "Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community health" and $6 million for "Social determinants of health" programs. The Senate is additionally making an imperative to fight for a 'less white' medical industry despite national platform talking points seeking an end to these sorts of programs and rhetoric's.

The Republican controlled senate is additionally requesting $10 million for 'Climate Change' and 'health appropriations', an item the party largely has championed as a hoax, with hundreds of millions more in 'environmental health' funds.

The appropriations bill is additionally seeking funding for multiple migrant labor programs, something that also have become an entrenched issue for the conservative base, as it has been revealed that programs like H1B, TPS and others are simply replacing heritage labor in favor of cheaper imported workers. The bill seeks $60 million for foreign labor certifications, at least $100 million for migrant and seasonal far worker programs and $375 million for the Migrant Education Program. Further funding to these programs leads many to wonder if the mass migratory replacement that continues to be federally funded has any electoral solution.

The initiatives are bewildering to conservative voters who thought they were successfully ending these endeavors through a Republican controlled House, Senate and Presidency. The bill's review is dropping during a time when many voters across the aisle are voicing rising frustrations with political inaction and continued movement, despite election outcomes, towards the same outcomes previously fought against. As loud voices are bolstering signals on social media of a potential 'tax boycott' in 2026 as a means to nonviolently resist unending corruption, the latest HHS appropriations bill is certainly making any ideological argument against such action difficult.