WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 -- Sen. Tommy Tuberville issued the following press release:

Today, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville joined his colleagues on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee in launching a committee task force to root out waste, fraud, and abuse in federal funding. The task force comes amid widespread reports of fraud and abuse of federal child care funding in Minnesota under Governor Tim Walz's watch.

The task force aims to target three areas under the HELP Committee's jurisdiction: health care, education, and labor & pensions. Sen. Tuberville will co-lead the subcommittee looking into education, alongside U.S. Sen. John Husted (R-OH). Fox News first reported (https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gop-senat...