It just gets worst by the minute…..
It seems members of Congress , BOTH parties, was working for something that would help lawmakers gain voter support for the coming Midterm election….Daycare support…When Trump annouced a backing away from his support?
Staff members are trying to play off their bosses comment against more funding as a memory loss situation (He’s having MORE of those)….
Hmmmm?
We ALREADY have had the Republican Congress walk away from continued Healthcare substitutes assistance, for Americans….
Trump thought he could do ALL sorts of things with his Tariff/Import Tax money….
THAT will Not happen due top the Supreme ‘s turning thumbs down on a President seeking to do his own tax increase….Trump’s people are instead issuing refunds of the money Trump thought ‘HE’ could use…
President Donald Trump’s rejection this month of federal support for child care upended significant bipartisan work to address an issue that families emphasize is driving up costs, according to advocacy groups and lawmakers involved in the efforts.
Lawmakers had signed on in record numbers to letters requesting money for early childhood care and education, according to the First Five Years Fund, a nonprofit that advocates for the programs. Trump’s domestic spending package expanded tax credits for working parents to offset child care costs, adopting elements of a bill from Sens. Katie Boyd Britt (R-Alabama) and Tim Kaine (D-Virginia). And the White House budget proposal for 2027 maintained funding for Head Start and the Child Care and Development Block Grant, about $20 billion combined.
“The interactions we’ve had within HHS and OMB have been positive,” said Sarah Rittling, the First Five Years Fund’s executive director and a former counsel to then-Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tennessee), referring to the Department of Health and Human Services and the Office of Management and Budget. Advocates and lawmakers also reported encouraging conversations with Vice President JD Vance, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles and the president himself.
But then a riff from Trump that wasn’t supposed to be public threw doubt on his administration’s position.
“We can’t take care of day care,” Trump said at an Easter lunch on April 1, according to a video the White House posted online and later removed. “We’re a big country, we have 50 states. We have all these other people, we’re fighting wars. We can’t take care of day care.”
Aides said that despite Trump’s sweeping language, the president was just referring to allegations of fraudulent payments for child care centers in Minnesota. A White House official said a new Vance-led task force to catch fraud in the programs will ensure their “viability for the Americans they’re meant to serve.”….
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In his New York Economic Club remarks in 2024, Trump said the U.S. could easily pay for child care using tariff revenue. His tariffs raised $287 billion in 2025, but the Supreme Court struck down most of them in February, ruling that in levying them, the president had exceeded his authority. Companies are now demanding refunds. Universal child care through age 4 would cost an estimated $175 billion to $200 billion annually, according to Moms First, while universal pre-K would cost an estimated $40 billion to $60 billion per year….
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