Your senators need to hear from you! Members of Congress will be holding a hearing this week on child care — so let’s make it loud and clear that families need easier and more affordable access to child care, NOT harmful freezes!
Tell your member of Congress to act IMMEDIATELY to restore and protect child care funding.
What is happening?
The Trump administration drastically and abruptly undercut access to child care for over half a million children in five states. This disastrous action was prompted by a right-wing influencer’s skewed video trying to “prove” unfounded allegations of fraud by attempting to gain unauthorized access to a number of Minnesota child care centers. Now, Republicans in the Senate are further relying on this weaponized footage to hold a Child Care “Fraud” Hearing which, in reality, is less about proving fraud and more about advancing their anti-family, anti-immigrant, pro-billionaire agenda.
We all know that fraud is, of course, never okay, but empowering and relying on right-wing social media influencers to do the work of government investigations is not the answer to the national child care crisis. Nor do any parents want creepy men demanding entry into their children’s child care centers and taking videos of their children. [1]
Tell Congress: Demand HHS Restore & Protect Child Care Funding NOW!
Yet despite opposition from parents, federal child care funds were not only frozen in the entire state of Minnesota, but also in California, Colorado, Illinois, and New York — cutting more than $10 billion in child care and family programs completely unrelated to these allegations, throwing the fate of families’ budgets and livelihoods into chaos. [2] Though a federal judge has temporarily blocked the freeze, programs and families are mired in uncertainty when it comes to the immediate and long-term future of their access to care. [3]
Freezing critical child care funds for hundreds of thousands of children and targeting immigrants in our communities, who are a critical part of the care workforce, does not make the lives of families any easier or more affordable. In fact, it does the opposite – it makes access to quality, affordable child care much harder.
Urge Congress to immediately have child care funding restored and protected!
We won’t be silent as child care continues to be under attack. Thank you for raising your voice!
With gratitude,
-Nadia, Lauren, Nina, Kristin, and the entire MomsRising and MamásConPoder Team
[1] “How the Minnesota fraud scandal could upend American child care” Vox.
[2] Trump’s Attack on Child Care Funding Undermines Early Educators, Shortchanges Children, and Increases Costs for Families
[3] Federal judge blocks Trump administration’s freeze of $10 billion in child-care funds
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