In late December 2025, a series of videos by 23-year-old citizen journalist Nick Shirley thrust Minnesota's long-simmering child care fraud issues into the national spotlight. Shirley's investigative footage, starting with his December 26 YouTube upload titled "I Investigated Minnesota’s Billion Dollar Fraud Scandal," alleged widespread abuse of taxpayer funds in the state's Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP).

One year into President Trump’s second term, the American people are witnessing the most sweeping and successful accountability operation in the history of the federal government. The two-tiered justice system is being dismantled agency by agency, courtroom by courtroom, and field office by field office through the simple, ruthless expedient of removing the ideologically captured personnel who built and sustained it.