U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren
Saturday, United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Tina Smith (D-Minn.) successfully secured more than $40 billion for child care and early learning resources in the Senate-passed COVID-19 relief package.
With the funding from the package passed today, $10 billion from the December-passed relief bill, and the $3.5 billion provided in the CARES Act, Senators Warren and Smith have made good on their push to secure $50 billion for child care. Right now, child care providers are struggling to keep their doors open while a pandemic and economic crisis devastate a system that was already deeply broken, said Senator Warren. Senator Smith and I have been fighting for a $50 billion child care bailout since April - this bill finally gets us there and gives us a solid foundation as we look toward building a child care system that works for every family.