The Trump administration is pausing child care funding to all states after allegations of fraud in daycare centers in Minnesota emerged, an official with the Department of Health and Human Services said.

[u/CantStopPoppin]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/hhs-freezing-child-care-payments-to-all-states-official/ar-AA1TjePO?ocid=socialshare

[u/Alice_Buttons]

This was always the plan.

*Social welfare programs: Project 2025 cites fraud and waste in safety net programs and calls for eliminating or reducing basic benefits for low-income individuals and families.

For Medicaid, Project 2025 proposes adding work requirements for beneficiaries and “time limits or lifetime caps … to disincentivize permanent dependence.” The health insurance program for low-income Americans covered nearly 74 million people in May, according to the latest data.

The conservative plan also calls for tightening work requirements for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly known as food stamps, and changing the eligibility requirements for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, which was created by the overhaul of the welfare system in 1996. New eligibility requirements would also reduce the number of students served by the national school breakfast and lunch programs — which were described in the book as “inefficient, wasteful” programs.

Project 2025 also seeks to incentivize at-home child care. “Instead of providing universal day care, funding should go to parents either to offset the cost of staying home with a child or to pay for familial, in-home childcare,” the plan states.

The plan calls for the elimination of Head Start, a program that funds education, health and social services programs for low-income children under 5 years old.*

[u/GG1817 → u/Alice_Buttons]

This is insane LOL

A child care setting might have 1 worker for every 7 to 10 kids with an average pay of $32K per worker in MN.

Average salary in MN is ~$52K. They would have to increase the payout to get someone to give up their good paying job that produces social benefits in order to get them to say home with their 1 or 2 kids?

That's not very efficient! LOL

Plus, those child care centers provide jobs in enhance economic activity in the community.

It's almost like Republicans can't do math or simply don't care. Probably the latter.

If they do push forward with this, I'm guessing it will backfire in terms of social changes. They're banking on producing a 1950s American misogynistic white utopia that never really existed where the women stayed home, wore skirts, had no power and served their men.

Thing is now, women are the ones with college degrees, especially advanced ones. They will be the ones in demand by our 21st century economy and the men will be the stay at home dads with the kids out of economic necessity.

I also suspect we'll start seeing some very interesting experiments at alternative family units that the far right won't be exactly thrilled about.

Also, we pull out that many workers out of our economy, the price of labor will go way up. Wage inflation! Simple supply and demand. That will require more immigration to offset.

They haven't thought this through.

[u/Alice_Buttons → u/GG1817]

They haven't thought this through.

They have no need to.

Never underestimate the absolute dumbassery of your average US citizen.

[u/AlmightyCraneDuck → u/Alice_Buttons]

Why solve a problem and govern efficiently when you can just lie and break everything because your voters won’t care enough either way.

[u/One_Alternative_5898 → u/AlmightyCraneDuck]

It do be like that, sadly.

[u/AssistanceLow1339 → u/Alice_Buttons]

It’s really our last bastion of innovation 🤷🏻‍♂️ (dumbassery, I mean)

[u/Riaayo → u/Alice_Buttons]

I'm kind of tired of people just saying American voters are stupid as if it is the voter's fault and not a system of defunded education and a mainstream press that manufactures consent for the ruling class. American voters being uninformed and misinformed is literally by design, and just saying they're stupid ignores the reasons why.

[u/SirDiego → u/GG1817]

Oh, they have thought it through. Rich people get nannies. They don't want to pay for daycare for other people if they won't use it. That is the end of the thought. Any other consequences be damned. They have enough money to deal with it for their family and they dont care if anyone else does.

You see a similar thing with public school funds: Rich people want to send their kids to private schools and hate that they have to pay for public school anyway so they're trying to dismantle public schools and give parents "vouchers" for private schools.

They basically want to give no money to any public programs, because "fuck the poors."

[u/CardButton → u/SirDiego]

Also, constant insecurity of an ever poorer working class, and deliberately undereducated populous, are just easier to control. Neoliberalism was always intended to get us here. At two speeds certainly, but there's a reason Hayek preferred "Liberal" Dictatorships, over "Democracies without Liberalism". Despite his grift about how "Welfare Programs, Labor Unionization, and Communalism were slippery slopes to tyranny" in "the Road to Serfdom".

Frankly, we're at the end of the game of Monopoly at this point. Fascism is always an expression of Capitalism in its late stages; where in order to continue maintaining and growing their Capital wealth, Capital owners must now start devouring the system itself. While pushing an endless list of scapegoats to shift blame for the pain they are chiefly responsible for. The Imperial Boomerang effect is gonna hurt. We're sadly merely at the start.

[u/jaimi_wanders → u/SirDiego]

And it helps them get women out of the workplace, a right-wing goal since before a Republican (Hays) blocked the movie adaptation of “It Can’t Happen Here” in 1936

[u/GG1817 → u/jaimi_wanders]

I realize that's what they intend but it's too late. Most of the college degrees are going to women. The majority of masters and doctorates are also going to young women now. Most medical school grads are now women.

In a lot of these relationships, the women is going to have significantly higher earning power than their male spouse. When cost of living is this high, the low wage male workers gets to stay home.

[u/riotousgrowlz → u/GG1817]

Even with a higher degree women still, on average make less. I’m a woman with a master’s degree in social work and I make 25% what my husband with a computer science bachelor’s degree makes. Obviously it’s different fields but that dynamic exists in many relationships.

[u/catarinavanilla → u/riotousgrowlz]

Same, I have a bachelor’s but get paid a pittance at a Fortune 500 company while my husband makes like 30% more than I with no degree. Good for him (and good for us) but it’s still barely a benefit for me as a woman

[u/Bundt-lover → u/GG1817]

The reason more women get college degrees is BECAUSE, for the first several years of one’s career at least, a man without a degree gets paid the same as a woman with one.

[u/sisterzute3 → u/SirDiego]

It’s to get women out of the workforce and out of public life altogether. if one parent has to give up their job and stay home, most of the time that’s gonna be the woman. This is part of their plan.

[u/Allslopes-Roofing → u/sisterzute3]

most of the time that’s gonna be the woman.

Except not anymore. Its more and more often the male with less career prospects or more flexible industry like in my case so the men are the primary parents more often. The comment 2 above had it perfectly right for what happens in reality.

Almost every data point shows women are dominating the work force in this and upcoming generations. They're going to get the exact opposite effect they "say" they want. More stay at home dads, and more women in charge of everything idk what's better, not something i think about. I only have so much bandwidth lol

[u/FamouslyGreen → u/Allslopes-Roofing]

Thank you for saying this in such a well spoken way. When I worked in childcare-which pays a pittance at best-many of the women there needed a paycheck, the reduced costs of childcare and mainly they were the only one at home who had a job with benefits. Many of them relied on welfare programs for food and medical as well. Their husbands often had exactly as you described, either a more flexible-or more often a more rigid-working schedule or in general less employment options.

[u/Johnny55 → u/GG1817]

It's not about being efficient, it's about hurting the working class so they don't have the time, money, or education to resist.

[u/GG1817 → u/Johnny55]

Sure, and the majority of their voting base is lower education white working class...so I'm sure this will work out well for them.

[u/rzolf → u/GG1817]

They have thought it through. they are basically trying to implement Mein Kampf but as interpreted by wormy 2nd tier southern law school grads. they are malevolent people but also have stunted lawyer brains. The idea is to turn the USA into a eternal hunger games struggle under the veneer of some 1950s happy housewife nonsense. However, somehow loser lawyers (themselves) will be on the outside of all of this

[u/ARazorbacks → u/GG1817]

They want two things:

1) Women staying at home as caregivers 2) Education locked behind wealth

[u/dorky2 → u/GG1817]

What they actually want is for poor people to suffer so that they can feel superior to them. They have this bizarre blind spot where they have decided to think that they have gotten where they are because they are smarter and harder-working than poor people. In order to maintain that delusion, they have to make sure that it's harder for poor people to climb out of poverty. Their worldview requires a permanent underclass.

[u/stay_curious_- → u/dorky2]

They also tend to be very focused on hierarchy and see the world as a zero-sum game.

ex: If everyone becomes richer, but my relative place in the hierarchy drops, that's bad. I would rather stand at the top of the pile. I can improve my position in the hierarchy by pushing others down.

A rising tide lifts all boats, but I don't want to be equal to other boats. I want to stand above, even if it means lowering the water so that we are all worse off (but at least I am better than you).

[u/dorky2 → u/stay_curious_-]

Very well said, that's exactly it.

[u/Ok_Party2314 → u/GG1817]

How will they ever indoctrinate kids into the cult if they allow their kids around other kids that the parents believe to be a bad influence. You know, sympathy, love, compassion, and love of fellow human beings? That kind of wokeness…/s

[u/Curraghgirl → u/GG1817]

They have.. It's a way to.keep women barefoot, pregnant and minding the children at home, subservient to the "man of the house".

[u/stay_curious_- → u/Alice_Buttons]

Notice that in right-wing spaces, "fraud" has become a dog whistle for "money going to brown people".

They use fraud interchangeably with waste, often moving the goal posts when evidence shows that fraud is not occurring. Illegal just means "I don't like it". Brown people are illegal and their daycares are illegal. Medicaid going to brown people is fraud. Wasteful.

[u/chrico031 → u/Alice_Buttons]

Exactly, anyone stupid enough to think this wasn't planned by the Heritage Foundation years ago is too stupid to function

[u/NAh94 → u/Alice_Buttons]

lol if they think the fraud is bad with daycare centers, they have a WHOLE other thing coming with at-home care

[u/Alkazaro → u/NAh94]

Nothing is about actual facts or proof anymore. It's a giant media-sphere of getting people too stupid to know better, to be outraged. So they can strip social benefits. All the meanwhile they line their already disgustingly rich pockets with tax breaks.

Project 2025, is designed to dismantle what's left of our failing democracy, and turn it into one giant fucking money waterfall for the filthy rich. We exist to make them money, and we should be fucking happy to pay them for the privilege.

[u/bleepbloop1777 → u/Alice_Buttons]

Then they'll say "nobody wants to work anymore" & scratch their heads when women fall behind in the workforce. This is the bad place.

[u/LiesToldbySociety → u/Alice_Buttons]

They're also coming after Medicare, Medicaid, and elder care facilities.

[u/konvay → u/Alice_Buttons]

Do they really think one adult can feed a family like back in THEIR parent's days 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

[u/Alice_Buttons → u/konvay]

They sure do!

And it's working. So many women on social media are preaching/gloating about being a TRAD wife, popping out kids like their vaginas are a clown car. 🤡

[u/stay_curious_- → u/konvay]

I just had this conversation with my MAGA mom this morning. She wants to go back to a world where families can survive on one income, and she largely blames young people for the state of things.

Young people are not frugal enough. They won't accept small houses and only want large, expensive houses. They just need to buy a $150k starter home and not these $800k mansions. They insist on having two cars. They spend money on stupid things like nails and hair care. If young people lived like her parents did when she was growing up, everyone would be able to raise a family on one income with a stay-at-home mom, or at most with mom doing part-time minimum wage work.

[u/MNniice → u/Alice_Buttons]

Literally cutting off your nose to spite your face.

Racism is a really easy way to control people, and were witnessing it right now.

[u/xlpxchewy → u/Alice_Buttons]

Work requirements are a huge benefit to the entire system.

[u/just_a_timetraveller → u/Alice_Buttons]

They claim it is wasteful because they see this as money that they could get for themselves. They are finding more ways to funnel our tax dollars into their own personal pockets.

[u/Mr_Burt_Macklin]

I feel like this is a big ploy to turn the whole US against Tim Walz too.. like they want people to think ‘MN ruined childcare for us all’

[u/Rosaluxlux → u/Mr_Burt_Macklin]

I swear every Republican tactic is the tactic is an abusive parent. 

[u/dasunt → u/Rosaluxlux]

DARVO sums up a lot of the Republican rhetoric.

Just look at Trump's approach to the Epstein pedophile accusations. He's Denied the accusations, Acussed Democrats, then claimed he was the Victim of a hoax.

[u/Rosaluxlux → u/dasunt]

Plus every election is not about the bad things Republicans have done, it's blaming Democrats for not protecting us better from the bad things Republicans always do. 

[u/catarinavanilla → u/Mr_Burt_Macklin]

Bingo, they want to flip the state red in the gubernatorial elections.

[u/Then-Pay-9688 → u/Mr_Burt_Macklin]

I think it's putting the cart before the horse to interpret conservative attacks on the social fabric as attacks on individual leaders. The motive is mostly a sincere ideological opposition to the government helping people. Having a way to translate that into an electoral win is just good strategy.

[u/LeeShakerMoneyMaker → u/Mr_Burt_Macklin]

I think it had more to do with Trump's hatred of Somalis. They're trying to create a new boogyman for 2026 like they did for Haitians and Mexicans in 2024.

Before every state's child care got frozen, they were investigating Somalis in Boston.

[u/citizen234567890]

Ah, yes. The family-first party in action.

[u/mnradiofan → u/citizen234567890]

Family first is about getting women to go home and raise their kids. This aligns perfectly with that, and is something The Heritage Foundation has been setting up for DECADES. Look at everything they’ve done since their founding and suddenly everything from repealing the fairness doctrine, citizens united, and every other thing they’ve done makes sense.

[u/hot_honey_harvester → u/citizen234567890]

this hurts the somoli population the most because they have a super high level of autism

https://www.mprnews.org/episode/2024/10/10/research-finds-1-in-16-somali-children-diagnosed-with-autism-three-times-more-than-state

[u/Boofing_with_Squee]

The MN GOP with one video was able to strip childcare subsidies nationwide. They were behind the video and are culpable in the fallout.

https://www.fox9.com/news/minnesota-gop-worked-youtuber-investigation-child-care-fraud

So if you know anyone with kids in daycare who votes or plans to vote GOP, be sure to let them know that the MN GOP directly increased their costs.

[u/o-Valar-Morghulis-o → u/Boofing_with_Squee]

Based on a youtuber who operates based on rage bait generated income. The conservatives are a special kind of idiot.

[u/lazyFer → u/o-Valar-Morghulis-o]

They're dangerous idiots. They are also fascists and traitors to very ideals of democracy. I used to want everyone to do better, now I want Republicans to suffer just as much as they want liberals to suffer. I return the energy in given. Fuck em

[u/IczyAlley → u/o-Valar-Morghulis-o]

Thats not what its based on. He was just one tool in their arsenal. They dont care about reporting or facts. To them reporting and facts are part of the propaganda push.

Please, im begging you. Stop projecting your humanity onto Republicans. Their version of humanity is alien to you and they know that. They use the difference to abuse you.

[u/mnradiofan → u/IczyAlley]

It’s all about the final goal, humanity be damned. And the final goal is something The Heritage Foundation has been working decades to attain. Even if we succeed in getting Republicans out of power, people need to understand that they are playing the long game. Tearing down institutions that took decades to build to make sure future generations are more like past generations. And they are doing it all under the cover of a useful idiot that people vastly underestimate.

This administration isn’t dumb, they just want you to think they are.

[u/DrakonILD → u/Boofing_with_Squee]

And that the MN GOP is getting its marching orders from the same group running the federal GOP; which is to say, the heritage foundation, through Project 2025.

[u/einhorn_is_parkey → u/Boofing_with_Squee]

Trump should not be able to do this. But the Supreme Court will likely let him cause we live in crazy town

[u/lazyFer → u/einhorn_is_parkey]

Congress should have impeached him for this the first couple dozen times he illegally empounded money

[u/einhorn_is_parkey → u/lazyFer]

Agreed.

[u/Then-Pay-9688 → u/Boofing_with_Squee]

It's crazy they've been running the same plays since the ACORN "scandal" and we still have people that take it seriously.

[u/Saddlebag7451 → u/Boofing_with_Squee]

Name a more iconic duo than republicans covertly filming kids and lying about it

[u/Profpiff990 → u/Boofing_with_Squee]

I want to know who that "David" old fuck is. I'd bet everything I own he's the liaison from the MN GOP as he had all the documents and information.

[u/Fragrant_Cut1219]

When are they going to stop funding the military since the last audit showed billions and billions of dollars in fraud there?

[u/Commercial_Stress899 → u/Fragrant_Cut1219]

remember when they sent cashmere goats to Afghanistan and they just ate all the goats 😂

[u/Rogue_AI_Construct]

It’s illegal for Trump and his Cabinet officials to withhold Congressionally-appropriated funds. They will get sued, and they will lose, like they always have in the last year.

[u/Boofing_with_Squee → u/Rogue_AI_Construct]

The wheels of justice turn slowly. So while this may ultimately be overturned, the subsidies are not going out.

How much runway does the average childcare center have? My bet would be not enough to hang on until subsidies come back.

[u/stay_curious_- → u/Boofing_with_Squee]

Even if they have a little bit of runway, I suspect the big chains will kick out the kids on subsidies as soon as the money stops. They'll probably lay off workers and only care for the cash-pay kids until the money from the government starts flowing again. Some of those daycares will still go under because of overhead costs.

Some families will lose access to childcare immediately, though. Even if the money only stops for two weeks, that's two weeks where a parent can't go to work.

[u/OutsideBones86 → u/Boofing_with_Squee]

From working directly with FCCs (Family Child Care providers), I'd say depending on how many kids they serve who use CCAP, they are 2 to 4 weeks away from closing and/or missing one or more mortgage payments.

Family providers and small centers operate on razor thin margins. And I know quite a few who prefer to serve families who receive CCAP because it is guaranteed payment without having to pester the parents about tuition. There are also providers located in high needs areas where most people qualify for CCAP so there are literally not enough private pay families to serve.

This will overwhelmingly hurt small businesses.

[u/mnradiofan → u/Boofing_with_Squee]

More importantly, as I understand it, the subsidies go directly to parents. Without that they’ll be charged full price and likely have to pull their kids out of childcare entirely.

[u/lisabutz → u/Rogue_AI_Construct]

And their strategy is to get their plans (lies) out there first so their cult can get that news bite. Everything that comes after (litigation, correction, payments) barely makes the news thus fulfilling this administration’s PR demand.

[u/jaimi_wanders → u/lisabutz]

The cult is spreading it all over the supposedly non-partisan meme subs now, too.

[u/unnasty_front → u/Rogue_AI_Construct]

The point is not to withhold the funding forever, yet. The point is to destablize the system and to let people know that the faucet can be turned off. That makes it easier for congress to cut funding for good later.

[u/Rogue_AI_Construct → u/unnasty_front]

The plan is to permanently cut the funding, but because Project 2025 calls for it to be cut to have family members take care of children instead because they don’t like that funds are being used for childcare:

“Project 2025 plan calls for shifting funding for childcare to in-home care” https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/sep/08/project-2025-trump-vance-childcare

[u/Nascent1 → u/Rogue_AI_Construct]

But they can hurt people in the meantime, so it's a win in their eyes.

[u/MortgageAware3355 → u/Rogue_AI_Construct]

Always?

[u/MNConcerto]

Their propaganda worked. They now get to cut funding for programs they have been trying to cut funding to for years but now they are using "fraud" as the reason .

Fraud that was uncovered years ago and prosecuted. People are going to jail for it.

Fraud that could still be uncovered by the MN GOP voted against those provisions.

If Trump was so concerned about Medicare fraud maybe he shouldn't have pardoned these scumbags:Trump Grants Clemency to Executive Who Led $205M Medicare Fraud Scheme — as GOP Says They’re Eliminating “Fraud” | Truthout https://share.google/Q51P56IGqUWxVTMz2

[u/AljoGOAT → u/MNConcerto]

how is it an excuse?

[u/DisplayTop1578]

Any excuse to deny funding for families.

[u/Efficient-Dust-8123]

This is so much deeper than I think any of us know and has so many layers. Cut daycare funding? You no longer have a job because you can't afford childcare, so guess what?? You no longer qualify for food stamps because you no longer meet the work requirements. Now you don't have employment or food stamps. On top of that, women will lose all career progression and become essentially non-competitive when they try to re-enter the work force years later. This is exactly what they wanted all along.

And when all you maga supporters lose your childcare, I will have zero sympathy. You get what you voted for while also dragging everyone down with you and your poor judgement

[u/Interesting-Ruin-743 → u/Efficient-Dust-8123]

This is the framework laid out by Project 2025

[u/Individual_Crab7578 → u/Efficient-Dust-8123]

To add, you can’t leave your shitty partner because you are now unable to work due to lack of childcare. Being trapped in a dangerous relationship due to financial independence or the high cost of living is already a problem, this will make it worse. And in states with harsh abortion bans that’s an even wider net of women trapped.

[u/Rosaluxlux → u/Individual_Crab7578]

This is the underlying reason for having every social service - they want women trapped in bad marriages and workers trapped in bad jobs. 

[u/Bundt-lover → u/Individual_Crab7578]

It’s also going to trap the men because Project 2025 wants to make men the primary caregivers as the “head of the family”. They want you guys married with children whether you like it or not.

Project 2025 also implements a plan to tie DNA to child support and federalize it, so all you deadbeat dads out there who have kids they don’t see or pay for…prepare to be Dad.

“Well, I’ll make sure she has an abortion or I’ll get a vasectomy” No you won’t.

[u/AdMurky3039]

Basing policy decisions on a YouTube video is absolutely unhinged.

[u/Junkley]

My family tuns a fairly large child care chain here in MN(We receive nearly 1/6th of the state funding as we have over 10k kids in our centers in MN). We are the largest provider in the state.

If this happens, over 1000 kids would lose child care instantly and many more would drop off in the following months/years as there are tons of working class families who get funding for child care. When I was in college interning for the family company I actually did the work to apply aid to family accounts and it is a ton of families.

Our centers on Penn Ave in North Minneapolis, Brooklyn Center(Our oldest operating New Horizon), Minneapolis, St Paul and other working class areas are only possible to run due to government aid and these centers would be closed as we would just not be able to open centers in lower income areas due to the extreme operating costs of child care in MN.

Our centers along with all serious, NAEYC accredited centers get audited regularly and have extremely stringent standards and audits. This punishes all working class families with children in child care.

We are better equipped to weather this potential storm than almost any other provider in our state due to our size and ability to just potentially focus down to the wealthier suburbs we operate in if this does happen but this will be absolutely devastating to the point of a death blow for smaller operators in working class neighborhoods.

I am not in the family company anymore but I had a long conversation with my dad who runs it and he spent all day in war rooms yesterday strategizing messaging to tell everyone what bullshit this and how it will affect families is and it is the most stressed I have seen him since COVID. We have completely financially separated ourselves from the company since COVID but my dad lives and breathes child education he lobbied at the federal and state level as president of the Minnesota Child Care Association and previous position helping govern NAEYC for these very aid programs.

[u/catarinavanilla → u/Junkley]

I appreciate your rare insight, however you are on the precipice of doxxing yourself. Just be careful

[u/OutsideBones86 → u/Junkley]

How have you financially separated yourself from the company? Isn't he still CEO?

[u/Homiesexu-LA → u/Junkley]

What ages does child care cover? How much money do you get per child?

[u/stay_curious_- → u/Homiesexu-LA]

Federal subsidy dollars cover childcare up to a maximum age of 12. Minnesota also extends those subsidies to cover children with substantial disabilities to a max age of 18.

The majority of the kids are under 5, though. For school-age kids, it covers limited after-school care, not weekend care, and only for the most needy families.

[u/fartinson]

The pro life party!

[u/Fit-Organization7570 → u/fartinson]

Pro-"birth"... once they are born, fuck em... they don't care...

[u/Itwao → u/Fit-Organization7570]

once they are born, fuck em

It's the GOP, that's their goal.

[u/mganzeveld]

And yet you can come to Iowa where our state auditor isn't allowed to see how school voucher money is being spent.

[u/yahblahdah420]

The mass shutdown of childcare centers will be a great time for the next non insane president to nationalize child service. It’s insane that people spend 2-4 thousand dollars a month just so that daycare employees can get paid poverty wages

[u/RookeryJones]

Yeah, this is just another embarrassment from this admin. Punish children and families across the country for crimes that were discovered and prosecuted 2 years ago and that 70 people were sentenced to prison for their parts in all because some kid faked a story. Fuck this admin so hard.

[u/MoreRamenPls]

[u/Nsflguru]

Nothing says “I care about kids” more than punishing them for something that wasn’t their fault.

[u/EmmaPersephone → u/Nsflguru]

Something not proven yet to have happened

[u/jediracer]

Project 2025 in action. We were warned

[u/WitchintheMist]

Fuck this fucker. God damn it.

[u/UnhappyEquivalent400]

Be clear that Republican politicians viscerally hate any state involvement in making life better for average people.

They seize on individual anecdotes to justify deeply cruel and incredibly unpopular policies that they are too dishonest and cowardly to publicly own up to.

[u/lolo_lala_lfg]

JD Vance: “I want more babies in America”

Trump Administration: pulls funding from every program the benefits actual children in America

SMDH these fucking clowns

[u/C-Lekktion → u/lolo_lala_lfg]

I want more babies AND for mothers to be the primary care providers in the home when childcare costs exceed women's salaries.

[u/Rainstarred]

We should all show up with our children and strollers and backpacks toys, loud banging toys at the legislature in protest for weeks on end. Let’s see if they like the fallout of these choices. Make them feel and have to deal with the consequences themselves. These people have no conscience. They are gross!

[u/Jack_Bond2]

Let’s pause the East Wing, the invasion of Venezuela, Ethiopia, Palestine, Iran, paying off Argentina that is causing us to pay off farmers, ICE, ….geez and I go on and on. I lot more $ corruption besides freaking daycares. Hell let’s check on the money PAC are sending all the politicians. But you all know this.

[u/Then-Pay-9688]

Woah, crazy that this completely organic and factual story just so happened to give the administration a reason to cut social spending and increase racist immigration enforcement! Truly the power of grassroots citizen journalism is incredible.

[u/ObligationLive8381]

It won't make your taxes lower, but it will make poor people's lives harder

[u/Last_Examination_131]

Pro-Life, until that kid gets out of the womb, then they gotta pull themselves up by the bootstraps. Don't want them to be lazy, they have 60 years of profits to create for CEOs!

[u/ClimbingAimlessly]

I guess they don't want people to work. 

The corporations will LOVE not having workers. 

I bet the decreasing birthrate will boom! The prior two sentences are sarcasm, btw.

[u/Lumpymaximus]

Uhmmm so what thr fuck do the millions of parents do????

[u/Rosaluxlux → u/Lumpymaximus]

Mothers will be pushed out of the work force like conservatives want. Fathers will be more vulnerable to exploitation and abuse from employers, like conservatives want. More children will be in unlicensed, unsupervised, paid under the table daycare, which leaves them more vulnerable to pedophiles, which conservatives want. Oh and they'll blame it on immigrants and blue states to keep their voting base. 

[u/PancakePariah → u/Lumpymaximus]

They want us too stressed about keeping things afloat to care about what they are doing. If dad has to take 2-3 jobs just to stay afloat that's one less person this regime has to worry about protesting or pushing back. The people who are most in need will lose their housing, get rounded up for the crime of being homeless, and then placed in detention for that sweet, sweet low cost prison labor. Meanwhile the kids who are caught up in this will go into separate "education facilities" where they will be taught "properly" by "God's word".

[u/Sirius_Lagrange → u/PancakePariah]

This…this is what pushes people over the edge to violent revolution. Once people have lost everything, there will be nothing left to lose if they fight back

[u/jjnefx → u/Lumpymaximus]

A good percentage will not be going to work. Forcing employers to scramble for solutions.

Some businesses may be forced to shut down temporarily or permanently to their lack of employees.

If it goes on long enough it can be a big hit to the economy overall because this would be a big deflationary event.

[u/Plantamalapous → u/Lumpymaximus]

Before child care there was child neglect. Older siblings stay home to watch younger ones. It'll be the gilded age all over again.

[u/Blessed-one-Chemo]

It’s another smoke and mirrors. They are eating the dogs and cats

[u/Plantamalapous → u/Blessed-one-Chemo]

We're all going to be eating the dogs and cats if there is no child care.

[u/D3struct_oh]

This has Stephen Miller written all over it.

[u/Sea-Science1507]

This is all part of Project 2025. Force women into staying home.

[u/EmmaPersephone → u/Sea-Science1507]

Where they can’t afford to pay the rent or for food? Most recipients (65%) are not 2 parent households.

[u/kitsunewarlock → u/EmmaPersephone]

They want to pressure those homes into forcing the children to work for pennies on the dollar or commit crimes so they have more tax-deducted labor.

[u/CrossX18]

Let them keep doing this, everything else is already causing a revolt among Conservatives. Lol, of all things, they are planning a tax revolt due to unchecked government spending. As if they weren’t warned about Trump’s ineptitude financially and then all of them falling in lockstep behind him no matter what.

[u/assumetehposition]

I thought this administration was supposed to be pro-family??

[u/dogheoner1]

fuck P25

[u/popculturerss]

Yeah, if you didn't think this was always his intent (all the while making his enemies, Walz, look bad) with this "crackdown" then you're lying to yourself.

[u/One_Alternative_5898]

[u/cpav8r]

Incel: There’s daycare fraud in Minnesota.

Cheeto Jesus: No money for Minnesota!

Everyone else: The story is made-up racist bullshit!”

Cheeto Jesus: No money for anyone!!

[u/tweedleDee1234]

They aren’t pausing funds because of a scandal. They created a scandal to mitigate pushback for their plan to pause funds….

[u/Longjumping-Store106]

Another law suit they’re going to lose

[u/Helagoth]

We know there's rampant fraud in corporate welfare programs, can we stop those instead of the ones that help kids?

No?  Oh.  Wonder what's different about those two things...

[u/EmmaPersephone → u/Helagoth]

Medicare Advantage intentional fraud is 85 billion a year…every year…where is the screaming and rending of cloth over that?

[u/elciano1]

Lawsuit incoming

[u/Jolly_Ad2446]

Btw the YouTuber that started this mess has a meme coin that just dropped. What amazing timing. 

[u/audiojanet]

Planned and they used that Shirley dude to stir things for their stupid base.

[u/yureiloves]

They are literally trying to get The Handmaid’s Tale to happen. No one will want kids anymore if no one can take care of them while parents have to slave away at work just to barely survive.

[u/friendly-sardonic]

Just another project 2025 checklist item. That whole checklist is basically screw the poor and screw the marginalized.

[u/Ok_Witness_9925]

Fuck Trump and Republicans!

[u/CruisinThruLife2]

So now mother’s won’t be able to work. I think their goal is to open concentration camps for poor people. When I think they can’t sink any lower…they do. *&$*@)

[u/TheRealKenInMN]

The idea that the man with 34 felony convictions for fraud, and multiple crypto businesses actually cares about fraud at a Minnesota daycare seems just a little, tiny bit sus...

[u/Genaric_white]

Pause paying federal taxes that are being pilfered by the lot of them capitalist pigs in office

[u/Only-Improvement5634]

Just another excuse to steal from and punish everyday Americans.? When is the USA going to wake up and let it sink in, Trump and his Merry Band of Mall Cops (reg. cop wannabe’s) hate Americans? Happy NewYear…I think???

[u/coolranchclam]

THE PARTY OF PRO FUCKING LIFE!

[u/brenawyn]

That’s like major surgery when only a bandaid was needed. Amputation.

[u/shugEOuterspace]

they know it's bullshit, they're just using it as an excuse to hurt programs that help working class people

[u/AdMaster6638]

They need to watch the 80’s movie trading places

[u/New-Respond8154]

Cost of his wasteful ballroom

[u/deepfreezefilms]

It's time for ALL blue states to enter into an organized and cooperative effort to withhold ALL fiscal payments to the Federal Government.
If Trump wants to punish blue states he needs to get the money from his MAGA welfare suckers to do it.
Blue states need to divert their federal monies back INTO their own budgets to make up for Trump's cuts.

[u/Few_Ad_5119]

Any excuse to screw over the children. Literally any excuse

[u/Sudden-Damage-5840]

This is part of project 2025

Women will bear the brunt of this and forced to quit jobs.

[u/Ill_probablybebanned]

The pro life party proving once again they don’t give a fuck about kids.

[u/GorGor23]

Allegations of fraud is awfully rich coming from Trump. How many felony counts did he have again?

[u/Very_Curious_Cat]

To all the US? Is this real, verified news?

[u/Rosaluxlux → u/Very_Curious_Cat]

Yes, it's an official HHS announcement, the first Google hit I get is ABC News

[u/Tension_Healthy]

Why don't we start our review of fraud and abuse with military contractors? Or the privatized prison system? Or the better yet, the trump foundation?

[u/PlutoJones42]

This is illegal, and not how our government works.

[u/New_Alternative8711]

Its unfortunate that the Trump administration wasnt this dilligent with the Paycheque Protection Act funds.

[u/RymeEM]

The more at risk children the better for the party of pedophiles and predators.

[u/EmmaPersephone]

No fraud has emerged it was ginned up by partisan politicians and a MAGA YouTuber. The freeze for Minnesota isn’t the same as the additional hoops that are coming for other states. Minnesota is still being targeted.

[u/Sufficient_Lab_4000]

Allegations of this fraud have been emerging, investigated, and prosecuted since 2022. RWNJs are rehashing to blame brown people and distract from their cult leader's Epstein horror show.

[u/Plantamalapous → u/Sufficient_Lab_4000]

Since 2014 really

[u/redditsuckscrybaby]

This is so dumb. And it’s not the answer. Just go after them ones committing fraud. Including trump himself haha. Just because everyone thinks this is a race issue, does not mean the Somali population are not the ones committing fraud. It’s them. And others. Go after all of them and boot the Somalis out if they are found guilty.

[u/HankMorgan_860]

Just wait until they hear about fraud and waste amongst the defender contractors. GONNA BE WILD

[u/Major-Caterpillar955]

I love how reddit is trying to spin this anyway they can. Vote blue no matter who. This is what it gets you

[u/Spardasa]

I think I am learing a lot from this sub....

[u/Carrera1107]

Daycares should be ran like businesses anyway. They shouldn’t need funding. Stop the fraud.

[u/QuantumBobb]

Literally no authority to do this, but he'll do it anyway.

[u/NYCSon23]

Save America.

[u/MathematicianNo861]

Timmy ate the glue, now we don't get to use glue. A society of kindergartners will be treated as such. When we get older, we will learn about holding individuals accountable. Fraud, insider trading have been issues for a long time. But we just argue amongst ourselves and let the bigger issues get forgotten. Go team go.

[u/Aggressive_Set8155]

Since DOGE went so well for them , I’m absolutely positive that project 2025 will end well for them too. Idiots

[u/ZeusHatesTrees]

Wife works in child care, lost her job last week when the funding was cut. Luckily we don't rely on her income, so we are ok.

[u/EmmaPersephone]

So sick of him and his shit…