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The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, which was written as an unofficial playbook for a Republican presidency, does briefly mention child care. Though Trump has distanced himself from the initiative, repeatedly lambasting it, the Project echoes many of the positions Trump has taken in his campaign, and a number of people close to him are heavily involved in it. So we’ll take a look at what the thinktank says.
“Instead of providing universal day care,” Project 2025 says on page 486, “funding should go to parents either to offset the cost of staying home with a child or to pay for familial, in-home childcare.”
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Project 2025 doesn’t outline how, if the federal government is helping families afford child care, it will ensure quality. Elizabeth Warren’s 2019 “Universal Child Care” plan recommended using the standards set forth in the early education program Head Start. On page 482, Project 2025 advises that the next US President should “eliminate the Head Start program.”
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