{"id":2606564,"date":"2026-05-25T06:24:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T10:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elizabeth-warren-wants-democrats-to-hit-trump-on-childcare\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T06:29:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T10:29:26","slug":"elizabeth-warren-wants-democrats-to-hit-trump-on-childcare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elizabeth-warren-wants-democrats-to-hit-trump-on-childcare\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Warren wants Democrats to hit Trump on childcare"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Felizabeth-warren-wants-democrats-to-hit-trump-on-childcare%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2606564&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Sen. Elizabeth Warren is urging Democrats to make universal childcare a central part of their affordability messaging heading into the 2026 midterms, arguing that voters\u2019 frustration with high childcare costs-alongside gas prices and inflation-could help swing the House and Senate back to Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>warren also points to what she calls Republican missteps, including past remarks by Donald Trump suggesting the federal government couldn\u2019t fund childcare and that childcare should be handled by states. She argues that Democrats should keep pressing universal childcare as a major contrast point with Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>The push comes as several Democrats pursue state-level childcare reforms,such as Virginia\u2019s employee childcare assistance program,New mexico\u2019s move toward no-cost universal childcare,and extensions of pre-K and 3-K offerings in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>Supporters contend universal childcare could reduce costs and increase workforce participation, while critics argue the approach may be incomplete or <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >counterproductive-citing existing tax-credit rules<\/a> that may exclude certain stay-at-home families, and claiming regulations and expanded government involvement can raise costs or reduce the market for informal or smaller providers.<\/p>\n<p>Polling cited in the article suggests strong public concern about childcare affordability and broad support for federal childcare funding, with the White House responding that Trump has already advanced pro-family childcare reforms and dismissing warren\u2019s criticism.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"fn-body\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sen. <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/elizabeth-warren\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"250\">Elizabeth Warren<\/a> (D-MA) is pushing members of the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/democratic-party\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"288\">Democratic Party<\/a> to embrace universal childcare as a key part of their affordability pitch to voters ahead of the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/2026-elections\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/2026-elections\">midterm elections<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Massachusetts senator is banking that voters frustrated by President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"4\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2018s administration will help hand back control of the House and Senate to Democrats, due to exorbitant childcare prices in addition to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/is-everything-racist-four-everyday-things-the-biden-administration-presents-as-racist\/\" title=\"Is Everything Racist? Four Everyday Things The Biden Administration Pre...ts As \u2018Racist\u2019\">high gas prices<\/a> and rising inflation. <\/p>\n<section class=\"explore-more-section\" id=\"wex-recommended-widget\">\n<div class=\"magazine-container single\">\n<h1 class=\"magazine-title mt-2\">Recommended Stories<\/h1>\n<p>             <i class=\"fa-solid fa-play icon\"><\/i>         <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-grid\">\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4581085\/cory-booker-democrats-stepping-up\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Cory Booker identifies three Democrats he says are \u2018stepping up\u2019<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4580999\/tillis-can-finally-drop-political-filter\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Thom Tillis says lawmakers no longer facing voters can finally drop the political \u2018filter\u2019<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4580963\/massie-says-lost-due-epstein-files\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Massie says he lost reelection due to his bipartisan efforts to release the Epstein files<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt would be political malpractice for Democrats not to be talking about childcare every chance we get, going into the midterms and beyond,\u201d Warren said, making her case at this week\u2019s Center for American Progress\u2019s IDEAS Conference.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cTake a look at the Republican Party on the question of childcare. They are fumbling the childcare issue now at the most basic level,\u201d Warren said. \u201cLast month, Donald Trump said out loud on camera that we can\u2019t \u2018take care of childcare because we have to dump a billion dollars a day into a war halfway around the world with Iran.\u2019 So much for America first.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In April, a video spread online of Trump claiming the federal government couldn\u2019t pay for childcare during a private Easter luncheon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cDon\u2019t send any money for daycare, because the United States can\u2019t take care of daycare,\u201d Trump said he told Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought. \u201cThat has to be up to a state. We can\u2019t take care of daycare.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Trump 2024 campaign focused not just on fixing the economy but also on helping struggling families in an effort to raise birth rates, making his comments at the White House a stark contrast. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">High childcare prices are just one factor American families are dealing with amid rising gas prices stemming from the Iran war. Childcare costs more than public college tuition in 38 states and the nation\u2019s capital for one infant, <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.epi.org\/press\/updated-resource-calculates-the-cost-of-child-care-in-every-state-child-care-is-more-expensive-than-public-college-tuition-in-38-states-and-washington-d-c\/\">according to<\/a> a 2025 Economic Policy Institute report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Warren\u2019s push for universal childcare also follows efforts that state-level Democrats have embraced to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/increasingly-senile-biden-believes-democrats-will-hold-the-house-and-senate-in-midterms\/\" title=\"Increasingly ...ile Biden Believes ... Will Hold the ... and ...ate in Midterms\">lower childcare costs<\/a> during Trump\u2019s second term. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA), who defeated her Republican counterpart by double digits last year, signed the Employee Childcare Assistance Program into law this year, which incentivizes businesses to help with employee childcare costs by matching employer contributions with state funds. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D-NM) <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.governor.state.nm.us\/2025\/09\/08\/new-mexico-is-first-state-in-nation-to-offer-universal-child-care\/\">announced<\/a> in September that New Mexico would become the first state to guarantee no-cost universal childcare starting Nov. 1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) recently announced they were extending nearly 100,000 3-K and pre-K offers for the upcoming school year. \u201cToday\u2019s announcement marks a new era for childcare in New York City \u2014 one where families can trust that government will deliver for them,\u201d Mamdani boasted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville argued for universal childcare in a <em>New York Times<\/em> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/11\/24\/opinion\/democrats-platform-economic-rage.html\">op-ed<\/a> in November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhen\u00a070 percent of Americans say\u00a0raising children is too expensive, we should not fear making universal child care a public good,\u201d he wrote. \u201cAnd darn it, we should not fear that running on a platform of seismic economic scale will cost us a general election.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But critics also claim the Democratic push to lower childcare costs ignores current legislation like the child and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/preview-president-biden-to-unveil-1-8-trillion-american-families-plan-during-his-address-to-congress\/\" title=\"PREVIEW: President Biden To Unveil .8 Trillion \u2018American Families Plan\u2019 During His Address To Congress\">dependent care tax credit<\/a> that discriminates against families with a stay-at-home parent, preventing them from claiming reimbursement for daycare costs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMany families need childcare, and costs have ballooned in recent years,\u201d said Lyman Stone, senior fellow and director of the Pronatalism Initiative at the Institute for Family Studies. \u201cIn big blue cities especially, proliferating regulations and standards intended to boost childcare quality and protect childcare workers have caused an enormous cost surge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stone argued removing regulatory constraints on childcare, such as zoning and parking rules limiting where childcare centers can operate, is a proven solution for making childcare more affordable and accessible and, as it happens, raising fertility. He also pushed for the United States to adopt a model similar to Finland, where the government provides childcare benefits, but allows families who prefer to use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cotton-build-back-better-full-of-smoke-and-mirrors-would-drive-inflation-further\/\" title=\"Cotton: Build Back Better &#039;Full of Smoke and Mirrors&#039; -- Would &#039;Drive Inflation&#039; Further\">family-based care<\/a> to opt out and take a home care allowance instead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cUnfortunately, in the U.S., childcare advocates have mostly refused to consider a Finland-style home care allowance,\u201d Stone said. \u201cWhen liberal childcare advocates ever get around to fixing the prejudicial rules in America\u2019s largest childcare subsidy, if they ever seriously begin considering a home-care allowance in a childcare program, then it would be worthwhile to have a conversation. Until then, it\u2019s clearly just more efforts at regulatory capture by an industry that\u2019s already charging American families far too much.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Similarly, Rachel Sheffield, a research fellow in welfare and family policy at the Heritage Foundation, pointed to certain regulations as driving up childcare costs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere are things that you can do to reduce the cost of child care, like regulations that, for example, require certifications for childcare providers,\u201d Sheffield said. \u201cBy requiring things like a college degree, or even a community college education, those types of things could drive up care costs.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAnd then the other thing too, though, is that when you get the government more involved in this in childcare, what it does is that it crowds out more informal providers,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Universal childcare could likely push more families into the labor force and more children into childcare centers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt could crowd out smaller providers, which is actually what most families prefer,\u201d Sheffield said. \u201cMost families prefer to have informal care, like someone who comes to the home, or mom or dad taking care of the child, or grandma, or kind of a smaller, in-home provider situation, versus paid childcare.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">January<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ffyf.org\/2026\/01\/28\/new-national-poll-shows-strong-bipartisan-support-for-federal-child-care-programs\/\"> polling<\/a> from UpONE Insights showed that a majority of voters, 80%, said the ability of working parents to find and afford childcare is either in a state of crisis or a major problem, and 82% said federal childcare funding will help lower costs for working families. The high support is a key indication of how salient the issue is during a midterm cycle, where affordability is one of the top campaign buzzwords.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/in_focus\/4566811\/future-of-america-depends-on-flourishing-families\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/in_focus\/4566811\/future-of-america-depends-on-flourishing-families\/\">THE FUTURE OF AMERICA DEPENDS ON FLOURISHING FAMILIES<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Still, the White House championed the Trump administration\u2019s pro-family efforts and dismissed Warren\u2019s criticisms in a statement to the <em>Washington Examiner.<\/em> <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNo president has done more on childcare affordability than President Trump, from permanently expanding the Child Tax Credit in the Working Families Tax Cut to dramatically reforming federal childcare regulations and programs,\u201d White House spokesman Kush Desai said. \u201cWhile Democrats mindlessly push throwing more money at every problem under the sun and expecting different results, the Trump administration will continue exploring and implementing solutions that actually reduce costs and expand options for American families.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warren urges Democrats to push universal childcare to voters ahead of midterms, betting Trump\u2019s failures may shift Congress to them<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2658,"featured_media":2606565,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/elizabeth-warren-childcare-midterms.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[6624,3685,34813],"class_list":["post-2606564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-childcare","tag-democrats","tag-elizabeth-warren"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/elizabeth-warren-childcare-midterms.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2606564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2658"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2606564"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2606564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2606568,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2606564\/revisions\/2606568"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2606565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2606564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2606564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2606564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}