Write a Letter to the Editor to tell Trump #HANDSOFF Head Start & Child Care!

Send a Letter to the Editor Urging Congress to Keep Trump’s HANDS OFF Child Care & Head Start

Send a letter to the editor urging your members of Congress to protect child care and Head Start by opposing Trump’s plan to slash child care funding for the purpose of financing tax cuts for billionaires and corporations!

The last few weeks have seen Trump escalating his troubling attacks on child care programs. In February, Donald Trump issued a federal funding freeze that illegally and recklessly halted federal grants and loans Including crucial payments to child care programs like Head Start. Though courts temporarily blocked this illegal action, agencies are still withholding money 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.

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, hurting businesses who need parents in the workforce, and undermining the economy.

Now is the perfect time to remind your member of Congress that our nation needs child care so parents can go to work, kids can thrive, child care workers can stay in their profession, businesses can prosper, and our economy can remain steady.

Make your voice heard by submitting a letter to the editor of your local paper. (We make it easy and fast with our letter to the editor tool).

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