Take action: Stop $12 billion of cuts to WA schools, child care, and more

WA Lawmakers: Hear our stories, see our power!

Washington lawmakers are deciding at this very moment what to prioritize during the 2025 legislative session. It's time to raise our voices and urge lawmakers to center care and caregiving as a vital part of the state’s infrastructure, address the child care crisis head-on with immediate and long-term investments, and champion new, progressive revenue to address the looming budget crisis in Washington State.

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Dear Washington Lawmakers,

As your constituent and a member of MomsRising, I'm writing to share about the issues that are most important to me in the 2025 legislative session.

The state's looming budget deficit threatens to undermine families, communities, and businesses across the state. Cuts to vital services and programs - from public education to child care to transportation infrastructure - affect us all. Parents and caregivers across our district and state are hard at work every day raising children, caring for family members, and earning a paycheck. Families cannot afford the cuts and possible recession that could stem from this budget deficit. As you plan for the hard work ahead, we ask that you champion the following policies to support families, communities, and our state's economy:

New, progressive revenue to address the budget and affordability crisis across Washington:

New, progressive revenue: Leverage a menu of new, progressive taxation policies to close the budget gap without cutting essential programs and services.
Support working- and middle-class families: Remove the uniformity clause and allow for more common-sense tax policies and end the reliance on across-the-board property and sales tax increases to balance the budget

Address the child care crisis head-on with immediate and long-term investments in a Child Care Guarantee for Washington:

Meet the promises in the Fair Start for Kids Act: Maintain the statutory commitment to expand Working Connections Child Care to families earning 75% of State Median Income (SMI) and adjust reimbursements to providers at the 85th percentile of the 2024 market rate survey
Transition to the Cost of Quality Care (COQC) Model: Transition the tool the Department of Children, Youth, and Families uses to recommend child care provider reimbursement rates from the Market Rate Survey to the COQC rate model to more accurately reflect the true cost of care

Center care and caregiving as a vital part of the state’s infrastructure:

Close the job protection loophole in Paid Family and Medical Leave: Ensure that every worker who qualifies for paid leave is able to take it without risking their job and their family’s health insurance to do so.
Support parent choice and compensate parent caregivers of children with disabilities: Support families of children with disabilities to access care arrangements that best meet their unique needs by allowing for parent-caregivers to be compensated as home health caregivers
Update the Healthy Starts Act to support parents on the job: Expand the HSA’s coverage to all employers, compensate breaks for medically-necessary pumping, and allow nursing parents to be excused from jury service.

Thank you for your public service and for all that you do for our community!

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