The Massachusetts senator is banking that voters frustrated by President Donald Trump‘s administration will help hand back control of the House and Senate to Democrats, due to exorbitant childcare prices in addition to high gas prices and rising inflation. “It would be political malpractice for Democrats not to be talking about childcare every chance we get, going into the midterms and beyond,” Warren said, making her case at this week’s Center for American Progress’s IDEAS Conference.
Warren also pointed to past comments that Trump made on the issue as one of multiple reasons her party needs to keep the pressure on universal childcare.
“Take a look at the Republican Party on the question of childcare. They are fumbling the childcare issue now at the most basic level,” Warren said. “Last month, Donald Trump said out loud on camera that we can’t ‘take care of childcare because we have to dump a billion dollars a day into a war halfway around the world with Iran.’ So much for America first.”
In April, a video spread online of Trump claiming the federal government couldn’t pay for childcare during a private Easter luncheon.
“Don’t send any money for daycare, because the United States can’t take care of daycare,” Trump said he told Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought. “That has to be up to a state. We can’t take care of daycare.”
