Washington state officials’ response wasn’t to investigate. It wasn’t to freeze payments. It wasn’t to demand accountability for a single dollar of the missing money. It was to attack the journalists who exposed it.
Washington Attorney General Nick Brown — another Democrat whose job is literally to protect the public from exactly this kind of fraud — issued a press release encouraging people to report journalists knocking on doors to a hate crimes hotline. A hate crimes hotline. For asking where the taxpayer’s money went:
Attorney General Nick Brown responded by encouraging anyone who would see a reporter “harassing” a daycare provider by knocking on the door, to report it to the hate crimes hotline.
“Showing up on someone’s porch, threatening, or harassing them isn’t an investigation,” noted Brown’s Dec 30, 2025, press release. “Neither is filming minors who may be in the home. This is unsafe and potentially dangerous behavior. I encourage anyone experiencing threats or harassment to either contact local law enforcement or our office’s Hate Crimes & Bias Incident Hotline.”
