Trump Admin Drafts 'Parent-Based Child Care Aid' Policy Instead of Paying Strangers to Raise Their Kids

Cassandra MacDonald : Sep 9, 2026
The Gateway Pundit

"Young children are clearly happier and healthier when they spend the day at home with a parent." -Vice President JD Vance

[TheGatewayPundit.com] The Trump administration is drafting a Health and Human Services policy that would, for the first time, let a married parent who stays home with the children collect federal child-care money that Washington has spent thirty years routing almost exclusively to day-care centers. (Image: Pexels)

...The change is a priority for Vice President JD Vance and would tap the Child Care and Development Fund, the 1990s program built to help low-income parents pay for care so they could work or go to school.

Typical aid runs about $9,000 per child a year.

Under the draft, a married couple in certain income brackets could use that assistance for "parent-based childcare," meaning one spouse stays home while the other works at least 35 hours a week.

"The change would create the only federal subsidy to pay parents to stay home and raise their children, one of the most significant efforts to date by the Trump administration to harness federal funds to promote a traditional view of families," NYT reports... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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