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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Edward Helmore

Trump attacks Walz and Omar after freezing Minnesota childcare funding

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Tim Walz, and Ilhan Omar. Composite: The Guardian/Getty Images

Donald Trump took further aim at Minnesota’s Democratic governor Tim Walz and the Somali American representative Ilhan Omar on Wednesday in the wake of his administration’s decision to freeze federal childcare funding to their state.

“Much of the Minnesota Fraud, up to 90%, is caused by people that came into our Country, illegally, from Somalia,” Trump alleged in a post on Truth Social, calling Omar “an ungrateful loser who only complains and never contributes, is one of the many scammers”.

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