The Department of Health and Human Services is freezing $10 billion in federal funds in five Democrat-run states over allegations of fraudulent child-care programming, an HHS official confirmed to ABC News. The HHS official confirmed that the five states are California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota and New York.

As the Trump administration continues to investigate a series of alleged fraud schemes at Minnesota day care centers run by Somali residents, social media users are falsely citing a Craigslist ad as evidence of such deceit.

Massachusetts is not facing disruption to its $293 million share of federal child care payments after the Trump administration announced a nationwide freeze last week in response to fraud allegations in Minnesota, a top state official said Monday.

In the days since the Trump administration announced it would freeze federal child care payments to Minnesota amid an alleged fraud investigation, fear and confusion have spread almost as fast as the viral video that launched the scandal.

The state Department of Children, Youth, and Families said it visited the nine facilities at the center of right-wing claims of fraud and found them "operating as expected."

Minnesota officials have a week to hand over information on providers and parents who receive federal child care funds that the Trump administration contends have been used fraudulently or risk losing federal funding.

With Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz ending his reelection campaign in light of alleged widespread fraud in the state’s social services programs, Michigan Senate Minority Leader Aric Nesbitt, who is also a Republican candidate for governor,