Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz speaks at a podium (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
Appearing to reference the viral video, Ali said the visit appeared to occur outside of normal business hours and wrongly claimed the center is permanently closed.
"Are you trying to record that we're doing fraud, or are you trying to put the Somali name in that fraud? That is what really hurt us in the last couple days," Ali said, adding that Quality Learning Center has been open for eight and a half years and has not closed "once" during that time period.
As for the spelling error, he said a vendor "messed up" their sign and is replacing or correcting it, predicting the situation will be assuaged by the end of the week.
In a video posted by Fox News Digital on Monday, Brown told people at a cyber-meeting that her department "care[s] about making sure that every dollar of the child care assistance program and other programs is going where it's supposed to be going and used as intended."
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"Several of these centers have been evaluated for program integrity in the past several years," she said.
Fox News Digital reached out to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz for additional comment.
Fox News Digital's Greg Wehner contributed to this report.
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