{"id":2351,"date":"2026-09-08T13:16:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T17:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/childcareforeveryfamily.org\/?post_type=press_releases&#038;p=2351"},"modified":"2026-09-08T13:16:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T17:16:22","slug":"child-care-coalition-condemns-trump-vance-administration-attempt-to-dismantle-the-federal-child-care-program","status":"publish","type":"press_releases","link":"https:\/\/childcareforeveryfamily.org\/es\/press-release\/child-care-coalition-condemns-trump-vance-administration-attempt-to-dismantle-the-federal-child-care-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Child Care Coalition Condemns Trump-Vance Administration Attempt to Dismantle the Federal Child Care Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2014 The New York Times recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/09\/05\/us\/politics\/stay-at-home-parents-subsidies.html\">reported<\/a> that the Trump-Vance administration is planning to redirect already limited Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) spending toward married, stay-at-home parents at the expense of the low-income working families who are already struggling to afford child care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In response, Andrea Paluso, Director of the Child Care for Every Family Network, issued the following statement:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cAll parents deserve support and real choices when it comes to caring for their children. <\/strong>But the Trump-Vance administration\u2019s proposal is an attempt to limit those choices by incentivizing married mothers to stay out of the workforce, discriminating against single or divorced parents, and reducing options for working parents. We will not let their limited, sexist view of what a family should be harm the millions of families with children the Trump administration clearly doesn\u2019t care about. And we will not let the administration pit the needs of stay-at-home parents against working parents. Every kind of family deserves support and access to child care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CCDF is already chronically underfunded and not serving the lower-income families that are eligible; only 14 percent of qualifying children are actually part of the program. And diverting even more funds from the system will continue to hurt our country\u2019s already struggling child care providers and force more of them to close, further reducing options for families. <strong>If Donald Trump or J.D. Vance actually wanted to help parents, they have real, achievable options right in front of them. <\/strong>They could expand the Child Tax Credit, giving money directly to parents, regardless of whether they\u2019re married or working. They could also invest in the Child Care Development Block Grant. But instead they are spending billions on tax cuts for billionaires, new wars, and their cruel mass deportation agenda.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No matter what, we\u2019ll continue to fight back against the Trump-Vance administration\u2019s nonstop attacks on the child care programs that so many families depend on to get by.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">###<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>The Child Care for Every Family Network is the national movement and campaign to transform child care, representing 2,000+ child care providers, impacted families, state and national organizations, and organizers across the country. Learn more: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/childcareforeveryfamily.org\/es\/\"><em>childcareforeveryfamily.org<\/em><\/a><em>.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All parents deserve support and real choices when it comes to caring for their children. But the Trump-Vance administration\u2019s proposal is an attempt to limit those choices by incentivizing married mothers to stay out of the workforce, discriminating against single or divorced parents, and reducing options for working parents.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/childcareforeveryfamily.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/2351"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/childcareforeveryfamily.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/childcareforeveryfamily.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press_releases"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/childcareforeveryfamily.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}