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The President’s budget for 2018 will leave millions of Americans behind. It makes dramatic cuts to programs that support families struggling to make ends meet, and it cuts investments critical for a strong economic future. While the threat this budget poses to American families and our economy is clear, the rest of it is not so defined. This budget relies on absurd economic growth projections, double-counts savings, hides anticipated new costs, and fails to provide any details on massive funding reductions and tax cuts.

Published in The Hill, May 25, 2017

Washington, D.C. The average cost of daycare for children up to age
four has climbed to $9,589 annually, more than the average cost of
state college tuition. For families earning the national median
income, the average cost of care for just one child under five amounts
to 18 percent of their income, and for families in lower income
brackets, child care alone could cost as much as two-thirds of their
pay. With child care expenses growing more rapidly than inflation, and

WASHINGTON – U.S. Reps. Danny Davis (D-Ill.) and Jackie Walorski (R-Ind.) today introduced legislation to speed up the process of placing children with foster families in other states. The Modernizing the Interstate Placement of Children in Foster Care Act would help states move to an electronic system for interstate foster care placement in order to reduce the delays and costs of paperwork.

The Congressional Budget Office today released an updated score on the Republican “repeal and replace” health care bill. The results are no surprise to anyone who has been following the debate. The aim of the bill remains the same: raid the Medicaid budget for a huge, inefficient tax cut for the wealthiest Americans. In terms of job creation and economic growth it makes more sense to spend these dollars on health care then on a tax cut. The human toll remains unchanged: 23 million Americans will lose their health care by 2026.

· Please join my House colleagues and I today for a "State of Child Care in America" hearing, discussing how to bring affordable quality care to all today May, 24, 2017 at 4pm (EST) talking to experts on Trump cuts to child care.

· The average annual cost of child care is approx $10k in US - unaffordable for most families who deserve better

· Proposed @POTUS budget cuts important child care programs that help parents. We need quality, affordable Child Care Now