A YOUTUBER just triggered a MASSIVE federal funding FREEZE, exposing what he calls a BILLION-DOLLAR daycare fraud scheme—and the White House is listening. Nick Shirley’s viral video claims to uncover $110 million in taxpayer money flowing to EMPTY daycares, prompting the Trump administration to CUT child care funding to Minnesota IMMEDIATELY.
The explosive 42-minute footage shows Shirley and a partner confronting Somali daycare workers, accusing them of running ghost centers with NO children in sight. The video is a SENSATION, racking up over 131 MILLION views on X after being boosted by Elon Musk and VP Vance, who called it “more useful journalism” than Pulitzer-winning work.
But here’s what makes it DANGEROUS: While experts and a CNN crew have challenged his evidence—filming actual kids being dropped off at one “empty” center—the political machinery is already in motion. FBI Director Kash Patel claims resources were “surged” to Minnesota, and the White House has embraced Shirley as “new media,” inviting him to a high-level roundtable. Meanwhile, Shirley sells $50 sweatshirts to fund his “security,” claiming he’s “violently assaulted” for doing his job.
Media professor Jane Kirtley warns this is fearmongering, not journalism: “They have a narrative… and spend little to no time looking for the other side.” Yet the feds acted BEFORE verifying a single claim. YOUR money is being pulled from childcare based on a YouTube stunt—while the people in charge look the other way. The real scandal isn’t the potential fraud; it’s how easily our system is hacked by a viral video and political allies who WANT to believe it. The dollars are gone, and so is the truth.
Edited for Kayitsi.com
Author: Kayitsi.com
