[Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 101 (Tuesday, June 16, 2026)]
[Senate]
[Page S2801]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                               CHILDCARE

  Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, today Senators Murray, Warren, and I are 
releasing the most comprehensive Senate report to date on Trump's 
broken promise to make childcare more affordable.
  A couple months ago, Trump said:

       Don't send any money for day care because the United States 
     can't take care of day care. . . . It's not possible for us 
     to take care of day care, Medicare, Medicaid, all these 
     individual things.

  That is what Trump said. Really, Trump?
  Trump thinks it is fine to stick working Americans with the bill for 
his gilded ballroom, his costly war in Iran, $2 billion of slush fund 
payouts for him and his MAGA loyalists, and trillions of dollars of tax 
cuts for the wealthy, but helping families afford childcare is just too 
much? What a disgrace.
  Trump isn't just refusing to lower costs of childcare; he is actively 
making it more expensive and harder for families to find, and they are 
desperate for it.
  Trump has removed caps on childcare costs, frozen $2.4 billion in 
childcare funding for five States that didn't vote for him, and made 
numerous other changes that have driven up the cost of childcare.
  Is it any wonder families paying 5 percent more for childcare now 
than before Trump took office in 2025 are angry? Of course, they are 
angry. When I was majority leader and Democrats were in charge, we made 
a historic $39 billion investment in childcare that lowered childcare 
costs by 10 percent, added 63,000 new childcare workers, and increased 
the supply of available childcare slots by 7 percent.
  America, that is what Democrats did when we had the majority; we 
helped people with childcare. What does Trump do? He slashes it and 
then proposes billions of dollars for a slush fund for him and his 
family. What callousness, what hard-heartedness, and how out of touch 
with the American people can Trump be?

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