Stop the Republican Child Care Heist
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Dear Friend,

New day, same harmful priorities from the Trump administration and
Republican majority who are trying their hardest to be THE WORST when it
comes to kids and families. They have already threatened health care cuts.
Now, they are targeting families and small businesses by slashing child
care funding to finance tax cuts for billionaires and corporations.

[ [link removed] ]Take urgent action NOW and sign our letter to your Member of Congress
saying NO to Billionaires, YES to Child Care and Head Start!

What’s happening? Donald Trump already issued a federal funding freeze
that illegally and recklessly halted federal grants and loans [1],
including crucial payments to child care programs like Head Start. Though
courts temporarily blocked this illegal action, agencies are still
withholding money [ [link removed] ] and child care programs throughout the nation are
struggling to get the funds they need to provide care to children. The
horrors don’t end there: We are witnessing mass firings of federal
employees throughout the government, such as terminations at early
childhood offices at The Administration for Children and Families, which
includes the Offices of Child Care, Early Childhood Development, and Head
Start. [ [link removed] ] These greedy, unnecessary, and harmful actions are not only
damaging the basic functioning of early childhood programming across the
nation, but also undermining millions of American families and their
children who depend on these programs for their child care.

[2]SIGN our letter to tell Trump and his Republican cronies to keep their
greedy hands OFF Child Care and Head Start!

And WHY are Republicans being this horrible? It’s because they want more
money for very rich people. Just last week, Republicans in the House of
Representatives rolled out a plan to make major cuts to child care,
education, health care, and nutrition programs in order to fund trillions
of dollars in tax cuts to billionaires and wealthy corporations. [ [link removed] ] These
cuts are essentially a high-level heist engineered by Republicans to
destroy child care access and affordability for families so their
billionaire friends can get a new yacht or finance smart toilets for their
fourth summer home. No, thank you, that money comes from our tax dollars
and should be building child care and learning opportunities for kids, not
funding shopping sprees for the ultra-rich!

After all, our nation needs child care so parents can go to work, kids can
thrive, child care workers can stay in their profession, and businesses
can prosper. Cutting child care hurts families and our economy.

[3]→ Don’t forget to add your name to our letter calling on Congress to
fight back with every ounce of power WE THE PEOPLE have granted them and
protect child care and Head Start!

Child care has long been unaffordable and unattainable for families. New
data released from the Women’s Bureau at the Department of Labor shows
that U.S. families spend between 8.9% and 16.0% of their median income on
full-day care for ONE child, with annual child care prices ranging from
$6,552 to $15,600. [ [link removed] ] To put this into perspective, the median cost of a
year’s worth of rent was $15,216, [ [link removed] ] which means that child care costs
more than rent!

[4]Looting child care to make the rich richer is UNCONSCIONABLE. Remember
to sign our letter saying NO to subsidizing billionaires by cutting care
for kids!

These are precarious times, but we are in this together fighting to
protect the needs of families and children over funneling government money
to the already rich. As we do our part, our electeds must do theirs to
address this pile up of awfulness.

Thank you for taking action and for keeping up the drumbeat of hope with
us!

-Nadia, Lauren, Nina, Elyssa, Hanna, Donna, Kristin and the whole
[5]MomsRising.org & [6]MamásConPoder Team

 

[1] [ [link removed] ]Judge temporarily blocks part of Trump administration’s plans to
freeze federal aid

[2] [ [link removed] ]The Courts Blocked Trump’s Federal Funding Freeze. Agencies Are
Withholding Money Anyway

[3] [ [link removed] ]Mass firings at HHS: Biden admin dept. heads denounce federal
health agency firings

[4] [ [link removed] ]House GOP panel passes budget blueprint with $4.5 trillion in tax
cuts and steep spending reductions

[5][6] [ [link removed] ]NEW DATA: Childcare costs remain an almost prohibitive expense

 


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