Tell Congress: Demand HHS Restore & Protect Child Care Funding NOW!
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Hi Friend,
URGENT: While families are still struggling with rising costs across the
board, the Trump administration has disastrously halted funding to 5
“blue” states, ripping child care, planned cash assistance, and
threatening the ability of families to go to work, to survive, and to
thrive.
[ [link removed] ]Tell your member of Congress to call on the U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services to IMMEDIATELY restore funding and protect child care.
Wait – what is happening? Truly twilight zone times. The child care system
is under attack by the Trump administration, which is using unfounded
claims of fraud, from a viral YouTube video of a creepy man going to the
doors of Somali child care providers asking to see and film the children
in their care, to take actions that will make child care more expensive
for families, make children less safe, and make it harder for child care
providers to keep their doors open. [1]
Every dollar meant for children should be spent on children. In fact, the
claims around child care fraud in Minnesota are years old and have been
dealt with and oversight has been strengthened. [ [link removed] ] But this is not about
fraud. This is a manufactured crisis that stokes fears and hatred,
isolating us from each other, while Trump carries out a destructive
immigration agenda that terrifies our immigrant neighbors and family,
people of color, and entire communities, tears apart our systems of care,
and undermines our families, businesses, and our economy.
Like we saw with DOGE, this is Trump’s playbook to a tee —it has nothing
to do with fraud. Trump and his GOP allies want to slash and burn
opportunities for families to thrive: They don’t care about opening
avenues so families can afford child care or about helping the small
businesses that keep our economy and communities working. And they are
starting with the 5 “blue” states of California, Colorado, Illinois,
Minnesota, and New York as yet another case of political retribution on
the backs of hardworking families. [ [link removed] ]
[2]Join us and tell Congress to immediately have child care funding
restored and protected. Families need and deserve affordability today,
tomorrow, and for our future.
Child care is not a “red” or “blue” issue – the simple fact is that ALL
families need affordable child care and they need it now. And the Trump
administration is charading around like they are protecting children while
implementing policies that will rip child care away from hardworking
families across the country.
[3]While the billionaires stacked in the Trump administration might not be
aware, it can only take one day without child care to lose your job.
American families living in this House of Cards can’t afford to have the
house come tumbling down when you rip child care away from our foundation.
Cutting off or slowing child care funding for families will be
catastrophic for children, families, providers, communities, and our
economy.
Fraud should never be tolerated. Which is why local, state, and federal
regulations are in place to ensure children and families are served with
care, and that taxpayer dollars are well spent. And, we can all agree that
children should always be protected.
Allowing unknown, ill-informed, and potentially dubious men to show up at
the doorsteps of the very child care centers and homes that provide the
safe and loving care for our youngest, demanding to “see” and video our
children is not what any parent would define as protecting our children.
In fact, that is wildly bizarre, risky, and potentially dangerous
behavior. And it must stop. Every state has a process to ensure the
dollars are spent appropriately as well as to investigate potential
problems. We don’t punish a whole town when one person steals a candy bar.
It makes no sense to punish thousands of hardworking families for
unsubstantiated, baseless allegations against a few people.
Families understand more than anyone that the impacts of this reckless
decision to halt child care funds will be swift and deeply harmful. Across
the 5 states that Trump is freezing child care funding for, more than
500,000 children in over 44,000 programs could be impacted, including more
than 300,000 children who rely on child care assistance and another
200,000 who do not directly receive assistance but who rely on child care
centers that receive federal assistance. [ [link removed] ] The aggregate cost to
families could total more than $400 million annually in lost parental
earnings and other impacts. Businesses in those states (California,
Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota, and New York) could lose another $119
million annually in reduced revenue from their workforce’s child care
disruptions and increased hiring costs due to parent employees leaving or
reducing their work hours because of the loss of child care.[ [link removed] ] And an
unsurprising result could be more of a motherhood penalty: more than
156,000 moms of young children could be pushed out of work as a result of
the loss of child care. [ [link removed] ] This is simply unacceptable.
Ask any parent or caregiver: Families already are in the middle of a care
crisis. Child care costs more than rent, mortgage, and college tuition in
far too many places across this country.
[4]Tell Congress to fight for the hard working families in their districts
and call the Department of Health and Human Services right now to restore
funding and protect the child care families depend on.The vast majority of
private sector workers still don’t have paid leave, and health care
premiums are about to skyrocket for households across the country because
President Trump and Republicans refused to act, and families can’t afford
increases in child care too right now.
[5]Our focus should be on making it easier and more affordable for
families to get the child care they need. Instead, the Trump
administration continues to ram an agenda through that hurts people and
makes it so much harder to live in this country of ours. That is a crisis
and a tragedy of their making.
Together we are a powerful voice for children and families,
Lauren, Nina, Kristin, and the entire MomsRising and and MamásConPoder
Team
References
[1] [6]“What to know about Nick Shirley, the YouTuber alleging day care
fraud in Minnesota”. NPR.
[2] [ [link removed] ]“How the Minnesota fraud scandal could upend American child care”
Vox.
[3] [ [link removed] ]“Trump freezes over $10 billion in childcare, family assistance
funds to 5 US states”. Reuters.
[4] [ [link removed] ]“Trump’s Child Care Funding Freeze in Five States Could Cost
Families $400 Million”. Julie Kashen, The Century Foundation.
[5] [ [link removed] ]“Trump’s Child Care Funding Freeze in Five States Could Cost
Families $400 Million”. Julie Kashen, The Century Foundation.
[6] [ [link removed] ]“Trump’s Child Care Funding Freeze in Five States Could Cost
Families $400 Million”. Julie Kashen, The Century Foundation.
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