Democrats introduce bill to help federal workers cover childcare costs during shutdown
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Democrats introduce bill to help federal workers cover childcare costs during shutdown - Lemmy.World
Exclusive: employees would be reimbursed for fees paid to childcare facilities
under plans initiated by Ilhan Omar Congressional Democrats are introducing a
bill that would provide childcare relief to federal workers affected by the
shutdown of the federal government, as it drags on through a second week.
Parents would be reimbursed for fees paid to childcare facilities during the
shutdown under plans initiated by Congresswoman Ilhan Omar. Any federal employee
who has been furloughed, or remains working through the shutdown without pay,
would be entitled to support under the Federal Worker Childcare Protection Act
of 2025.
Wtf? They are furloughed, they are home with their kids. Unless they are essential, then ok I can see it being good. But where is this support for childcare for the people that are essential and not federal workers? Why are the Dems attacking Mamdani when he said he wanted to provide childcare?
Because they’re better than the rabble. Obviously they should have free childcare, they deserve it. The rest of us should just shut up and continue to struggle. That is our lot.
Narratives like this support DOGE’s actions. The GS-5 working for your local national park is not your enemy, it’s the multi billionaires that used their influence to kill the child tax credit in 2022 to fund a tax cut for them in 2025 that are the problem here. Ilhan’s bill focuses on government employees because it is a messaging bill in a government shutdown environment and because it keeps the bill simple, the government already has mechanisms for OMB to reimburse government employees for eligible expenses, so this is just directing that infrastructure to add a category to the list of eligible expenses as opposed to creating any new systems or changing the tax code. It’s not even close to a final step, but it helps some workers, and that’s better than the current trend of the government stepping on workers in favor of billionaires
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