Date: January 2, 2025
Host: Jim Schneider
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With stories ranging from Mamdani to Minnesota, the news cycle continues to flow as we surge into the new year. Here’s a selection of stories that Jim presented:
–Zohran Mamdani is sworn in as mayor of New York on the Qur’an and claims he wants to replace individualism with “the warmth of collectivism.”
–Mamdani used his first day in office yesterday to hit the ground running with new executive orders targeting city landlords and housing development. He said that the city will take precedent setting action to intervene in the private landlord bankruptcy case he said was tied to 93 buildings.
–The Council on American/Islamic Relations of New York called Mamdani’s inauguration, “a historic moment of progress for American Muslims and the entire nation.”
–Mamdani announced that Ramzi Kassem, a 9-11 terror lawyer, is going to serve as the city’s occupying chief counsel.
–Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, at the forefront of expanding federal funding for pandemic-era food and child care programs; those programs are now at the center of fraud allegations among the Somali immigration population in her home state.
–U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Monday that the Department of Justice has already arrested and charged 98 individuals with fraud in Minnesota, 85 of whom are of Somali descent.
–A child care center licensed under Minnesota Governor Tim Walz’s administration raised eyebrows by having a publicly listed phone number leading to Walz’s office.
–The Health and Human Services Department announced Tuesday it’s freezing all child care payments to Minnesota amid allegations of widespread fraud.
–Police in Minneapolis have disputed a Somali run day care center’s claim that important documents disproving fraudulent activity were stolen.
–The small Business Administration is clawing back all grants to the state of Minnesota over its gargantuan fraud scandal.
–It’s been revealed that many of the fake child care centers had been donating to national Democrat races across the nation.
–Some federal TSA agents are revealing details of how Somali men have been flying potentially billions of dollars out of the U.S. inside their carry-on luggage in recent years with no one stopping them.
–Child care center fraud may have taken place in the state of Washington.
–Washington State Democratic lawmaker Lisa Wellman introduced a bill that would exempt the sharing of personal information in public records for all child care providers in the state amid investigations into alleged Somali day care fraud.
–Josh Williams, an Ohio lawmaker, claims there have been multiple reports alleging fraud of publicly funded child care programs.
