Starting in 2016, the beginning of former Mississippi Department of Human Services director John Davis' administration, the state's Temporary Assistance for Needy Families spending on child care began to drop, while funding for "Fatherhood and Two Parent Family Formation" grew substantially, according to federal reports. Overall spending also fluctuated wildly as the agency built up a reserve of unobligated federal grant dollars and then began spending down those funds in 2017 and 2018, while officials allegedly perpetrated one of the largest embezzlement schemes in state history.