“We can’t take care of day care. We’re a big country. We have 50 states. We have all these other people. We’re fighting wars,” he said during a private Easter luncheon at the White House. “It’s not possible for us to take care of day care, Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things. They can do it on a state basis. You can’t do it on a federal. We have to take care of one thing: military protection. We have to guard the country.”

Across the political spectrum, American families disagree. Every day, Americans from different walks of life tell us they want many of the same things when it comes to care: options, affordability, more quality time with their families, and less stress. Eighty-eight percent of voters support expanding Medicare to include long-term care services. Eighty five percent of voters support increasing federal funding to states to help parents afford child care. 

During the last election, President Trump seemed to understand that care was the linchpin of affordability. One of us even asked then-candidate Trump what he would do to make child care more affordable, and his response went viral. 

“Childcare is childcare… you have to have it,” he said. “We’re going to make this into a........

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