As JD VanceA response to the rising cost of childcare struck Thursday, Donald Trump During a question-and-answer session when he responded to a similar prompt he might have responded with a 360-word statement with ambiguous declarations, including that he “wants[s] To live with childcare.
A day later his running mate said that the parents Attention should be paid to family members Asked to help and eliminate the “ridiculous” certifications that child care workers must obtain, Trump was asked a question along the same lines at New York’s prestigious Economic Club.
Reshma Saujani, founder of the nonprofit Girls Who Code, prefaced her question by noting that child care outpaces inflation and costs the economy more than $122 billion annually.
“If you win in November,” she wondered, “could you commit to prioritizing legislation to make child care affordable, and if so, what specific legislation would you advance?”
During his nearly two-minute response, which anchor Anderson Cooper called a “word salad” during a segment on CNN, Trump did not mention any such laws.
Instead, he left viewers with lingering questions about how exactly he would go about reducing child care costs.
“Well, I’ll do that, and we’re sitting down — you know, I was, somebody, we had Senator Marco Rubio, and my daughter Ivanka was very influential on that issue. It’s a very important issue. But I think That when you talk about the kind of numbers that I’m talking about, that – because look, child care is child care, that – can’t happen in this country, you know, that’s something, you have that. Must have. You must have it.
But when you talk about those numbers, you talk about those numbers compared to what I’m talking about by taxing foreign nations at a level—but they’ll get used to it very quickly—and it won’t stop them. Doing business with us, but when they ship the product to our country they will incur a very significant tax. Those numbers are much larger than any numbers we’re talking about, including childcare, that would be taken care of.
We have — I’m hoping to have no deficit in the very short term, coupled with reductions in waste and fraud and all the other things that are going on in our country, because I have to live with childcare. I want to stay with child care, but those numbers are small compared to the kind of economic numbers that I’m talking about, which includes growth, but growth also goes according to plan that I just told you about.
We’re going to take trillions of dollars, and as much as childcare is said to be expensive, it’s not very expensive compared to the numbers we’re going to take. We’ll make it a wonderful country that can afford to take care of its people, and then we’ll worry about the rest of the world.
Let’s help others, but we are going to take care of our country first. This is about America first. It’s about ‘Make America Great Again’.
We have to do it because we are a failed nation right now, so we will take care of it. thank you Very good question. Thank you.”
That was the response Published Later through the campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris, J have proposed Re-expansion of the child tax credit on top of the $6,000 tax credit for new parents.
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