Trump administration reportedly freezes all childcare payments to all states

[Eugene]

Earlier DU thread: Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz hits back as Trump administration freezes state's child care funds amid fraud claims

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Source: The Guardian

Trump administration reportedly freezes all childcare payments to all states

Trump official says funds will be released ‘only when states prove they are being spent legitimately’

The Department of Health and Human Services is freezing all childcare payments to all states, an official for Donald Trump’s administration told ABC News in a report published Wednesday, just hours after department officials announced that they had frozen childcare funding to Minnesota.

States’ funds, the unnamed official said, will be released “only when states prove they are being spent legitimately”.

The department did not immediately reply to a Guardian request for comment on the report, but HHS spokesperson Andrew Nixon told ABC News that “it’s the onus of the state to make sure that these funds, these federal dollars, taxpayer dollars, are being used for legitimate purposes”.

Recipients of childcare funding will have to provide HHS with extensive documentation, such as “attendance records, licensing, inspection and monitoring reports, complaints and investigations”, Nixon added.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/31/trump-administration-childcare-funding-freeze

[aeromanKC]

1. Trump's goal for 2026: Alienate all voting blocs

1. Parents: check

[Initech]

24. Apparently only white supremacist conspiracy theorists are the only ones who matter.

[slightlv]

25. I believe his goal for 2026

is to kill as many of us possible... overseas is okay... but "home" is even better. If he's going to die, he's going to take as many with him as is possible. I'm to the point of saying somebody needs to do an assassination. I'm not for violence, especially political violence, but he is inflicting violence daily on everyone -- an in particular to the most vulnerable among us. He MUST pay... and so must his maladministration. There is no other choice that I can see. No one is "man enough" to stand up to him, let alone knock him down. What are WE to do to protect ourselves and our loved ones?

He's locked into a corner... between the continual Epstein files fallout, his dying body turning against him, the bottoming out of all the polls, and the laughter that permeates the air around him. And we all know a cornered animal is the most dangerous. I truly worry for all of us, if he's not put out of his (and our) misery.

[JBTaurus83]

2. It's truly amazing

That our economy hasn’t already crashed. It seems he is doing everything in his power to make sure it happens.

[vapor2]

3. More money for his pockets

[colorado_ufo]

7. And making Putin happy.

[electric_blue68]

4. Damn their Cruelty!

Yet, again!

[Initech]

23. And also fuck the idiot that broke this story!

We currently live in an insane asylum. WTF.

[Hope22]

5. Childcare, nursing facilities, assisted living....

….food, emergency heating funds…….funding cut, payments withheld a deliberate attack on the people. Only thing funded is ICE, also a deliberate attack on the people…….

[Ol Janx Spirit]

6. Make America Gasp Again

[Katcat]

19. I'm gagging

Not gasping. Give me time tho

[Mblaze]

8. Now do the Department of Defense.

A long proud history of failed audits.

[peppertree]

20. +1

"They stuffed all the audit documents where???"

[pfitz59]

9. More extortion

'Give Trump his share or suffer the wrath of the God-King!'

[BurnDoubt]

10. Congress should withold his Golfing funds, Triumphal Arch and Secret Service Protection until his Audit is complete.

Tarffs on Brazil will mean we’re going to be paying more for his Hamberders, too.
Of course they won’t because their breath smells like his Ass.

[the nelm]

18. He needs to be put on an allowance like many parents do for their children. n/t

[B.See]

11. The fkr can't SLEEP at night for thinking up ways to HURT PEOPLE.

No low, TOO low.

[littlemissmartypants]

12. Allocation TOTAL $250,000,000.00 for 2025 ...

https://acf.gov/occ/data/american-relief-act-2025-allocation-tables

[BoomaofBandM]

13. Gotta pay for ice

[jaymac]

14. And again I say

We see it , we hate it, we demonstrate, but why aren't many in power doing something? talk to newsoms people, maybe they can come up with some kind of a plan other than what they have been, to move forward. why do I always feel the dc people don 't really care at all.

[Mossfern]

15. How long before

the establishment of debtors' prisons?

[littlemissmartypants]

16. Child Care Cost by State 2025

https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/child-care-costs-by-state

[flashman13]

17. It takes some serious nerve for the administration that engages in waste, fraud, and abuse of Federal dollars

at a scale never seen before to turn to the states and demand they account for the paltry funds they receive from said administration. The Trump administration wastes more money in a day than most states receive in a year.

[slightlv]

26. He's got to find more money to put into his coffers.

I don't know for what. He's got more than any one person could ever need or want. But he'll strip it from everyone until he finally just gets to the point to where he sets up a money box and demand, track, and surveil every person to ensure they fill it with all they have.

[Mad_Machine76]

21. Next

He’ll force states to refuse to allow children of LGBTQ+ parents to attend daycares. Or POC. And order them to eliminate DEI or they won’t get their federal funding back. I know this sounds hyperbolic but…..

[Initech]

22. And how aer they going to prove that, exactly?

The psychopaths will just keep moving back the goal posts. Fuck Trump. And fuck Nick Shirley also.

[Johonny]

27. I assume this goes to court

Because he likely doesn't have the power to freeze said funding . . .