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Media advisory

Press Briefing on Unsubstantiated Fraud Allegations, Trump Administration Attacks on Child Care

January 7, 2026
Early Care & Education

Lisa Lederer, 202/371-1996

*FOR PLANNING PURPOSES ONLY*

When: Wednesday, January 7, 2026 at 11am Pacific / 1pm Central / 2pm Eastern

Where: 

Please register to join us on Zoom:

https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GUJVzNU3TvSACMCS0HIHXg#/registration

Why: On December 30, 2025, the Trump Administration announced via social media that it would freeze federal child care funding to Minnesota, citing unsubstantiated claims amplified by a single social media influencer. In the days that followed, new reporting revealed that the Administration has expanded this action to at least five states, pausing billions of dollars in child care and related social services funding and imposing new, opaque requirements on states nationwide. These developments come as the U.S. House prepares for a hearing of the House Oversight Committee on child care on Wednesday, January 7th. 

Taken together, these actions represent an unprecedented federal assault on child care – one that is already creating fear, confusion, and instability for children, families, providers, and state systems.

Join experts who are on the ground in Minnesota, impacted parents and providers from across the country, and national child care leaders to learn more about what’s happening with Trump’s proposed “funding freeze” and the real and immediate harm it is causing children, families, and early educators.

Contact:

Danielle Alexander (she/her)

Child Care for Every Family Network

danielle@childcareforeveryfamily.org

971-221-5363 (call/text)

Confirmed speakers:

  • Shazia Khalid, MomsRising member in Brooklyn, New York 
  • Impacted parents and child care providers from Minnesota, New York, and Colorado
  • Lydia Boerboom, Kids Count on Us Minnesota
  • Andrea Paluso, Co-Director of the Child Care for Every Family Network
  • Dr. Ruth Friedman, Senior Fellow, The Century Foundation
  • Elliot Haspel, Senior Fellow, Capita

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The Child Care for Every Family Network is the largest united group of state and national organizations, child care providers and early educators, impacted families, and organizers working together to transform child care. Our network currently includes 2,000+ groups and individuals and is expanding every day as we work to build the power necessary to win. Learn more at childcareforeveryfamily.org

MomsRising.org is an on-the-ground and online grassroots organization of more than a million people who are working to increase family economic security, stop discrimination against women and moms, and build a nation where businesses and families can thrive. Established in 2006, MomsRising and its members are organizing and speaking out to improve public policy and to change the national dialogue on issues that are critically important to America’s families, including criminal justice reform, immigration policy reform, and gun safety. MomsRising is working for paid family and medical leave, affordable, high quality childcare and early learning, and for an end to the wage and hiring discrimination which penalizes women — particularly moms and women of color — and so many others. MomsRising advocates for access to healthy food for all kids, health care for all, earned sick days, and breastfeeding rights so that all children can have a healthy start. MomsRising maintains a Spanish language website: www.MamásConPoder.org. Sign up online at www.MomsRising.org — and follow us on our blog, and on Twitter and Facebook.