State House Republican Minority Leader Kurt Daudt wants Democrats to have hearings as soon as possible on the sudden departure of three top officials at the state Human Services Department — and why an investigation of fraud in the Child Care Assistance Program was delayed. But Rochester Democrat Tina Liebling says, “I just really don’t see the urgency of having a hearing. There’s of course conversations going on. I can talk to the administration, just like Kurt Daudt can, and there’s really no reason to have a hearing.”
Daudt says lack of information from the Walz administration is troubling and the public deserves to know what going on in the largest state agency, the Human Services Department.
Liebling says she’d like the fraud investigation finished “fairly soon. I would certainly expect it to be concluded by the time we start the new legislative session [February 11, 2020], and hopefully before then, because… it’s gonna be important to have somebody in place to start implementing a lot of the legislation that we did pass.”