Childcare workers push back on Trump administration’s ‘ridiculous’ narrative that programs are riddled with fraud
US families are facing “impossible choices” as the Trump administration pushes to freeze federal funds for childcare and family assistance in five states over claims of potential fraud and misuse of taxpayer funds.
Billions of dollars of funding are at risk in Minnesota, New York, California, Illinois, and Colorado, each with state governments run by Democrats.
Alice Dryden, a childcare worker in Chicago, Illinois, told the Guardian, freezing federal childcare funds would be a “disaster” for the families reliant on them.
“If we had to close our doors or close some classrooms, these families would be faced with impossible choices,” said Dryden. “It wouldn’t just be a disaster for the families and the children who don’t have daycare to go to any more. This is a support network for the entire community. Our workforce allows the rest of the workforce in the city and the state to function.”
