A top official within the Trump administration’s Education Department has now revealed two blue states that he says are the worst when it comes to federal student aid fraud, as the crackdown on scammers exploiting taxpayer-funded programs continues. In 2025, the Department of Education revealed that it stopped a billion dollars worth of fraud within aid programs. Under Secretary of Education Nicholas Kent stated that the schemes in question not only waste taxpayer dollars, but negatively impact low-income students who are earnestly trying to get funds to help pay for their education.
“We talked about California being certainly a hub of fraud, waste and abuse, but we also see Minnesota, for example,” Kent said in an interview with Fox News Digital. “You know, one of the things that has been brought to light over the course of the last couple of weeks is the enormous amount of fraud, waste and abuse under the governor’s leadership there, and this is something that the federal Department of Education had lifted up and highlighted months ago.”
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