{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.warren.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/warren-schumer-murray-announce-senate-democrats-vision-for-affordable-available-high-quality-child-care", "Warren, Schumer, Murray Announce Senate Democrats\u2019 Vision For Affordable, Available, High-Quality Child Care", "2026-06-17", "2026", "2026-06", "Democrat", "Senate", "MA", "Elizabeth Warren", "W000817", "www.warren.senate.gov", "warren", "https://www.warren.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases", "scraper", "Warren, Schumer, Murray Announce Senate Democrats\u2019 Vision For Affordable, Available, High-Quality Child Care\n\nDemocrats\u2019 new report exposes how Trump and Republicans have driven up costs and broken promises to American families\n\n\u201cWhile Donald Trump and Republicans dream up new ways to line their billionaire buddies\u2019 pockets and give giant corporations even bigger tax breaks, Democrats are united in the fight to lower families\u2019 costs and deliver universal child care.\u201d\n\nWarren Remarks (Youtube) | Child Care Affordability Agenda (PDF)\n\nWashington, D.C. - Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) joined Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Senator Patty Murray (D-Wash.) in announcing the next pillar of Senate Democrats\u2019 affordability agenda: a new Senate Democratic vision to make child care more affordable, more available, and higher quality for families across the country. Democrats\u2019 policy framework stands in stark contrast to Republicans\u2019 policies, which have led to skyrocketing costs and exacerbated the child care crisis.\n\n\u201cUniversal child care is the best investment we can make in bolstering the middle class,\u201d said Senator Warren. While Donald Trump and Republicans dream up new ways to line their billionaire buddies\u2019 pockets and give giant corporations even bigger tax breaks, Democrats are united in the fight to lower families\u2019 costs and deliver universal child care. Together, we\u2019ll get it done.\u201d\n\n\u201cTrump and Republicans have made finding reliable and affordable child care an impossible feat,\" said Leader Schumer. \u201cThey have waged an all-out war on the child care sector, hurting those who are the most vulnerable among us: children. Senate Democrats are focused on a Day One solution to the child care crisis that includes affordable child care that meets parents\u2019 needs while investing in the infrastructure, workforce, and early childhood programs. As Republicans continue to fund tax cuts for their billionaire buddies, Democrats are laser-focused on the issues that Americans actually care about \u2014 affordability.\u201d\n\n\u201cWhen I go back home there is not a single parent saying, \u2018What I really want\u2014is higher prices and more war mongering.\u2019 That may seem fine to an out-of-touch billionaire like Trump but working families don\u2019t \u2018love\u2019 inflation. Instead, the issue that comes up the most is no surprise to any parent: It\u2019s child care. Trump\u2019s latest budget short changes child care, while blowing up war spending,\u201d said Senator Murray. \u201cTrump says we can\u2019t afford child care. The truth is we can\u2019t afford to ignore child care. This year, Senator Warren and I announced our Child Care for America Working Group\u2014a coalition dedicated to lowering costs and delivering affordable and accessible high quality child care for all families across the country. Now, we\u2019re making this a central focus of our caucus\u2019s long-term affordability agenda with Leader Schumer. This is a priority for families\u2014so Democrats will make it a priority in Congress.\u201d\n\nChild care costs are one of the largest financial burdens facing American families today. President Trump and Republicans have abandoned American families, leaving many unable to find affordable, high-quality child care. In the wake of this crisis, the senators released the Democrats\u2019 vision to lower child care costs and expand access to high-quality care for American families across the country, helping parents, children, and child care workers alike.\n\nEarlier this week, the senators released a new \u201cBroken Promises\u201d report exposing how Republicans' policies have wreaked havoc on child care and harmed families across the country. The report detailed how families cannot afford child care, how it\u2019s hard to find affordable high-quality child care, how Trump is attacking our federal child care and early childhood education experts, and how Republicans are actively undermining the child care sector. This new report is part of Senate Democrats\u2019 year-long initiative to address the cost of living crisis Trump and Republicans have created. So far, Democrats have focused on the rising cost of housing, historic food and grocery prices, skyrocketing energy costs, and slashes to health care.\n\nSenator Warren has led the fight to make child care available and affordable for working families:\n\nIn May 2026, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) joined the Center for American Progress\u2019 IDEAS Conference to deliver a speech on the need for universal child care.\n\nIn March 2026, U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Patty Murray (D-Wash.), longtime leaders on child care, along with Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Bobby Scott (D-Va.), established a new working group as the latest major push in Democrats\u2019 fight to lower costs and deliver child care for every American family.\n\nIn March 2026, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani published an op-ed in USA Today calling for the Democratic party to commit to making universal child care a central part of its platform.\n\nIn February 2026, U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), along with Representative Mike Quigley (D-Ill.), led over 40 colleagues in pressing the Department of Health and Human Services\u2019 (HHS) Administration for Children & Families (ACF) on how the Trump Administration\u2019s immigration policies are shrinking the child care workforce and driving up costs for American families.\n\nIn February 2026, at a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Personnel, Ranking Member of the Committee Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) questioned military leaders on the impact of poor barrack conditions and inadequate child care on service member morale and readiness.\n\nIn February 2026, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) teamed up in the fight to deliver universal child care for American families.\n\nIn February 2026, at a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Personnel, Ranking Member Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) delivered opening remarks calling for improving the quality of military barracks, better pay for child care workers so military families can have the child care support they need, and tracking the impact of Republicans\u2019 health care cuts for service members and their families.\n\nIn January 2026, U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Reverend Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) led Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.), Ben Ray Luj\u00e1n (D-N.M.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), and Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) in announcing a new investigation into how the Trump administration\u2019s cuts to affordable child care programs are affecting rural families.\n\nIn September 2025, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Representative Mikie Sherrill (D-N.J.) led over forty lawmakers in reintroducing the Child Care for Every Community Act, legislation that would expand access to affordable child care to every American family, offer high-quality early education to every child, and create good jobs for our early educators.\n\nIn May 2025, In a response to U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren\u2019s (D-Mass.) letter to the Department of Defense (DoD) demanding clarity on the department\u2019s plans to address allegations of child abuse in its Child Development Centers (CDCs), the DoD revealed a pattern of incompetence in its oversight of child care services.\n\n###", 1, "2026-06-18T06:41:00Z", "2026-06-18T06:43:25Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.warren.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/warren-schumer-murray-announce-senate-democrats-vision-for-affordable-available-high-quality-child-care"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.6757408156991005, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}