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As a reminder of how daycare works, you pay regardless of whether your kid attends or not. You could pull them from daycare altogether... But your probably not going to find another slot or opening again.
It's weird how the funding for the ICEstapo and sending National Guard into blue cities is never in question...
Are they really still paying both of those parties? Wtf?
Edit: I'm seeing that they ARE NOT paid during the shutdown. But they are forced to work.
There should be a carve out of this for anyone who works for DHS affiliated agencies. Those people should go broke and be financially forced into other lines of work.
And that has zero chance of passing.
I imagine they know that. But it's a good headline that "Republicans vote down child care"
Republican voters are only going to hear the "Republicans bravely defend the country from COMMUNISM" spin.
I know... I know. The media landscape in this country is irrevocably fucked.
Yep. It will never pass because it's socialism, and we can't have that! /s
Wtf? They are furloughed, they are home with their kids. Unless they are essential, then ok I can see it being good. But where is this support for childcare for the people that are essential and not federal workers? Why are the Dems attacking Mamdani when he said he wanted to provide childcare?
All the essential workers still work, without pay
Many US child care facilities require contracts for 40 hours per week regardless if you send your kids every day. Even if the parents choose to keep their kids home, they're likely on the hook for payments.
That's how ours is... And I'm just a normal dude with a toddler.
We pay them if the rascal is there or not.
Makes sense. They are selling you the option to one of the available childcare slots, which is a fixed number. They can't sell more slots than they can accommodate, on the off chance every slot is used on a given day. To do so would drop the quality of care.
It's not like they are airlines and can just bump you to the next available.
Its not even about quality of care its state regulations. They can only accept so many kids and need to have so many staff per state regs.
If I pull my kid from daycare, they are just out of daycare. They would be school age by the time I got a new slot.
I think the state regulations exist to assure a minimum safe level quality of care, so we are saying the same thing.
They can't sell more slots than they can accommodate, on the off chance every slot is used on a given day. To do so would drop the quality of care.
I mean, if airlines can do it...
I very much doubt you will find an example of Ilhan attacking Mamdani or childcare support. This is at least the second time she's tried to pass this bill, the first was during Trump's first term. A majority of federal workers are not furloughed during a shutdown, although it's hard to find numbers on how many of those are working with pay vs. without pay. I'm positive she also spoke out when Republicans and Manchin and Sinema killed the childcare tax credits from the build back better bill that reduced child poverty to record lows, she's pretty consistently one of the good ones.
It's also worth pointing out that this is as much a messaging tactic as a real bill. There ain't no way Republicans are passing this bill, but having this and other bills like it on the table makes them put up or shut up if they try to attack Democrats for holding government workers' livelihoods hostage over the shutdown. Having it focus on government workers increases the strength of that message, even if broader relief would still be necessary if this passes.
Introducing bills like this, and thus establishing a counter narrative of "this is what the Democrats want for the country, as opposed to what you are getting today from the Republicans", is miles better than the Schumer strategy to date of doing his level best to agree to all of the Republican demands in order to make living under the Trump presidency as unbearable as possible in the hopes that people will vote Democrat for change despite Schumer putting no daylight between Democratic and Republican positions.
It costs money to take care of children, in case you weren't aware.
I think it's that category of essential employees who are working without pay that this would be most intended for.