Jan. 14, 2026 7:30 AM PT
To the editor: Californians gained’t permit political video games to jeopardize the care of our kids. I commend the legal professional basic for submitting this lawsuit to forestall any additional hurt (“California sues Trump administration over ‘baseless and cruel’ freezing of child-care funds,” Jan. 8).
A blanket funding freeze for blue states doesn’t punish one political social gathering — it punishes the thousands and thousands of actual kids, households and child-care suppliers who can pay the value. In accordance with an evaluation by the Economic Policy Institute, youngster care already takes up about one-fifth of a median household’s earnings in California. With our state’s excessive price of dwelling, do we actually count on them to shoulder any extra sudden prices with out dire penalties?
There are present mechanisms for accountability for public funds, and child-care suppliers are already burdened with excessive operational prices. This freeze will deprive kids of care throughout their most necessary years of growth, eroding the muse for his or her success.
If our nation’s leaders actually cared for working households and their kids, they might make issues simpler for them, not withhold important funding.
Stacy Lee, Los Angeles
This author is chief studying officer and senior managing director, early childhood, at kids’s advocacy group Youngsters Now.
