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“The United States can’t take care of daycare… It’s not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things… All these little scams.”
– President Donald Trump, April 1, 2026
Last week, child care (“daycare”) was called one of “these little scams” by the President.
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Eighteen months earlier, the then-candidate Trump said something very different to a question at the Economic Club of New York about child care:
It’s a very important issue… Child care is child care. In this country, you have to have it…
As much as child care is talked about as being expensive, it’s relatively speaking, not very expensive compared to the numbers we will be taking in. We’re going to make this into an incredible country that can afford to take care of its people.
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