Tell Congress to Demand HHS Restore & Protect Child Care Funding NOW

While families are still struggling with rising costs across the board, the Trump administration has disastrously halted funding to 5 “blue” states, ripping child care, planned cash assistance, and threatening the ability of families to go to work, to survive, and to thrive.

The child care system is under attack by the Trump administration, which is using unfounded claims of fraud, from a viral YouTube video of a creepy man going to the doors of Somali child care providers asking to see and film the children in their care, to take actions that will make child care more expensive for families, make children less safe, and make it harder for child care providers to keep their doors open.

While the billionaires stacked in the Trump administration might not be aware, it can only take one day without child care to lose your job. American families living in this House of Cards can’t afford to have the house come tumbling down when you rip child care away from our foundation. Cutting off or slowing child care funding for families will be catastrophic for children, families, providers, communities, and our economy.

Tell your member of Congress to call on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to IMMEDIATELY restore funding and protect child care.

Dear Member of Congress,

We are alarmed by this Administration’s abrupt freezing of child care, TANF, and SSBG funding for 5 states (California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota, and New York) using unfounded claims of fraud as a justification for harming children, families, and entire communities. We ask you to urgently demand that the Department of Health and Human Services immediately restore funding and for Congress to continue to protect funding for child care and programs that ensure families can build good lives.

Families understand more than anyone that the impacts of this reckless decision will be swift and deeply harmful. Across the 5 states that Trump is freezing child care funding for, more than 500,000 children in over 44,000 programs could be impacted, including more than 300,000 children who rely on child care assistance and another 200,000 who do not directly receive assistance but who rely on child care centers that receive federal assistance. The aggregate cost to families could total more than $400 million annually in lost parental earnings and other impacts. Businesses in those states could lose another $119 million annually in reduced revenue from their workforce’s child care disruptions and increased hiring costs due to parent employees leaving or reducing their work hours because of the loss of child care. More than 156,000 moms of young children could be pushed out of work as a result of the loss of child care.

Please urgently call on Secretary Kennedy and the Department of Health and Human Services to immediately restore child care funds and work with your colleagues in Congress to continue to protect child care.

Sincerely,

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