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Eugene

(66,757 posts)
Wed Dec 31, 2025, 05:44 PM 19 hrs ago

Trump administration reportedly freezes all childcare payments to all states

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

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Trump administration reportedly freezes all childcare payments to all states (Original Post) Eugene 19 hrs ago OP
Trump's goal for 2026: Alienate all voting blocs aeromanKC 19 hrs ago #1
Apparently only white supremacist conspiracy theorists are the only ones who matter. Initech 16 hrs ago #24
I believe his goal for 2026 slightlv 16 hrs ago #25
It's truly amazing JBTaurus83 19 hrs ago #2
More money for his pockets vapor2 19 hrs ago #3
And making Putin happy. colorado_ufo 17 hrs ago #7
Damn their Cruelty! electric_blue68 18 hrs ago #4
And also fuck the idiot that broke this story! Initech 17 hrs ago #23
Childcare, nursing facilities, assisted living.... Hope22 18 hrs ago #5
Make America Gasp Again Ol Janx Spirit 18 hrs ago #6
I'm gagging Katcat 17 hrs ago #19
Now do the Department of Defense. Mblaze 17 hrs ago #8
+1 peppertree 17 hrs ago #20
More extortion pfitz59 17 hrs ago #9
Congress should withold his Golfing funds, Triumphal Arch and Secret Service Protection until his Audit is complete. BurnDoubt 17 hrs ago #10
He needs to be put on an allowance like many parents do for their children. n/t the nelm 17 hrs ago #18
The fkr can't SLEEP at night for thinking up ways to HURT PEOPLE. B.See 17 hrs ago #11
Allocation TOTAL $250,000,000.00 for 2025 ... littlemissmartypants 17 hrs ago #12
Gotta pay for ice BoomaofBandM 17 hrs ago #13
And again I say jaymac 17 hrs ago #14
How long before Mossfern 17 hrs ago #15
Child Care Cost by State 2025 littlemissmartypants 17 hrs ago #16
It takes some serious nerve for the administration that engages in waste, fraud, and abuse of Federal dollars flashman13 17 hrs ago #17
He's got to find more money to put into his coffers. slightlv 16 hrs ago #26
Next Mad_Machine76 17 hrs ago #21
And how aer they going to prove that, exactly? Initech 17 hrs ago #22
I assume this goes to court Johonny 14 hrs ago #27

Initech

(107,308 posts)
24. Apparently only white supremacist conspiracy theorists are the only ones who matter.
Wed Dec 31, 2025, 08:15 PM
16 hrs ago

slightlv

(7,435 posts)
25. I believe his goal for 2026
Wed Dec 31, 2025, 08:32 PM
16 hrs ago

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

(857 posts)
2. It's truly amazing
Wed Dec 31, 2025, 06:00 PM
19 hrs ago

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

Initech

(107,308 posts)
23. And also fuck the idiot that broke this story!
Wed Dec 31, 2025, 08:04 PM
17 hrs ago

We currently live in an insane asylum. WTF.

Hope22

(4,457 posts)
5. Childcare, nursing facilities, assisted living....
Wed Dec 31, 2025, 06:51 PM
18 hrs ago

….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…….

BurnDoubt

(1,409 posts)
10. Congress should withold his Golfing funds, Triumphal Arch and Secret Service Protection until his Audit is complete.
Wed Dec 31, 2025, 07:26 PM
17 hrs ago

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.

jaymac

(213 posts)
14. And again I say
Wed Dec 31, 2025, 07:36 PM
17 hrs ago

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.

flashman13

(1,987 posts)
17. It takes some serious nerve for the administration that engages in waste, fraud, and abuse of Federal dollars
Wed Dec 31, 2025, 07:37 PM
17 hrs ago

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

(7,435 posts)
26. He's got to find more money to put into his coffers.
Wed Dec 31, 2025, 08:37 PM
16 hrs ago

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

(24,933 posts)
21. Next
Wed Dec 31, 2025, 07:57 PM
17 hrs ago

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

(107,308 posts)
22. And how aer they going to prove that, exactly?
Wed Dec 31, 2025, 08:02 PM
17 hrs ago

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

Johonny

(25,335 posts)
27. I assume this goes to court
Wed Dec 31, 2025, 11:01 PM
14 hrs ago

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

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