Governor Tim Walz, Minnesota Democrat, who might have become vice president had Kamala Harris won the November election, has announced he will not be seeking a third term.

The alleged fraud involving daycare centers and allegations that federal aid went to outside entities, including China and East Africa, apparently forced his decision.

A trial opened this week in Mississippi, where it is alleged several nonprofits fraudulently re-directed $77 million in federal money to enrich themselves.

We regularly hear complaints of “waste, fraud and abuse” in Washington. Politicians make promises to root it out. Rarely do they follow through.

Fraud usually makes headlines only when the amount exceeds the lottery. In the matter of the alleged fraudulent spending on phony day care centers in Minnesota – at least $9 billion, though Trump claimed $18 billion in his New Year’s Eve speech at Mar-a-Lago – the amount was impossible to ignore. It took a 23-year-old YouTube video creator, not the mainstream media, to attempt it, though many Somali daycare operators refute many of the claims in the 12-minute video, and call them........

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