Misspelled learning center, no children inside: Emmer presses Walz over Minnesota daycare tied to $4M

"4 million dollars of hard-earned tax dollars going to an education center that can't even spell learning correctly. Care to explain this one, Tim Walz?" he wrote on X.

Such violations range from failure to keep hazardous items away from kids to the daycare not having any records for more than a dozen listed children, according to the outlet. Documentation reviewed by Fox News Digital showed the site's current license does not expire until the end of 2026.

This week, YouTuber Nick Shirley and another man approached a building labeled the Quality Learing Center (sic) on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis, with Shirley noting that "Learning" was spelled incorrectly on the daycare's sign outside.

Shirley asked the woman whether she thought he or the other man were immigration agents and identified himself as an online commentator.

The man held up a paper that appeared to show $1.9 million had been disbursed to the center in fiscal year 2025, adding that the total disbursement to the center that he had recorded was $4 million.

"Go away. You're not welcome here. Shame on you," the woman told Shirley. It remained unclear whether the woman had any association with the center.

A document on the Minnesota Department of Human Services website showed the center is supposed to account for 99 children, a figure also mentioned in the video by Shirley.

"There's no one here," he said.

"This is a prime example of the billions of dollars in fraud happening right now in Minnesota. This is one of the hundreds of 'daycares' receiving millions of dollars from the government. This daycare (that can't even spell learning right) received $1,900,000 in tax-exempt funding from CCAP in 2025. This is just one of the thousands of fraudulent businesses operating in Minnesota."

X commentator Greg Price shared the video, writing that if people try to "knock on the doors of Somali-owned daycares that have received millions of tax dollars from the Minnesota government, liberal white women will accuse you of being ICE."

Fox News Digital reached out to the number listed for the daycare in state government documents, but an automated message said the call could not be completed as dialed.

Fox News Digital also reached out to U.S. DHS for any comment on critics of the Minnesota investigation appearing to attribute ICE employment as a proxy to people they believe could cause undue trouble in public.