Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston.
The Trump administration is freezing childcare funds to Minnesota following a string of alleged fraud cases in recent years.
Minnesota Public Radio's Claymasters reports the move comes just days after a video from a right-wing influencer went viral.
The acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
Jim O'Neill, made the announcement on the social media platform X.
He writes the step is in response to allegations of blatant fraud in Minnesota,
and his agency has, quote, turned off the money spigot and are finding the fraud.
The announcement follows a viral video from a right-wing YouTuber that featured Minnesota daycare facilities that have been part of a state-administered child care program using federal money.
Some of the centers recently had operations or payments suspended.
In a statement, Democratic Governor Tim Wall tells NPR he has been combating fraud for years,
and this is a quote,
transparent attempt to politicize the issue to hurt Minnesotans and defund government programs that help people.
For NPR News, I'm Clay Masters in St.
Paul.
President Trump has vetoed a bill to fund a drinking water pipeline project in rural Colorado.
Alejandro Alonso-Galva with Colorado Public Radio has more.
The bipartisan finish the Arkansas Valley Conduit Act passed unanimously in both the House and Senate.
It was meant to help finish a project that's been decades in the making and would bring clean water to 39 communities in the southeastern plains of the state.
It was designed to eventually stop groundwater withdrawals in the area,
which can produce water tainted with radioactivity.