Trump is quietly defunding Head Start so he can fund tax cuts for his billionaire friends. Preschools are closing across the country, and many working parents are being stranded without child care. This isn’t being talked about enough. - ThreadSky

mikenellis.bsky.social • 6 days ago

Trump is quietly defunding Head Start so he can fund tax cuts for his billionaire friends. Preschools are closing across the country, and many working parents are being stranded without child care.

This isn’t being talked about enough.

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nickibosch.bsky.social•6 days ago

Fuck them. Why is this even a thing? Pay your gd taxes like everyone else.

c2snow.bsky.social•5 days ago

There are hundreds of things that aren’t being talked about enough.

They dropped bombs everywhere all at once

nancydagle.bsky.social•6 days ago

I read their reason is that government should not mandate curriculum for ANY form of education, but then there is the BS with them wanting to control universities!

katywho50.bsky.social•6 days ago

I think that BS is about curriculum is a contrived rationalization. They just want to get rid of it, save the money, and use it for their own purposes .

nlcoombe.bsky.social•6 days ago

Heartless bastard

reneehere.bsky.social•6 days ago

Was on Rachel Maddow's show Friday night!

sarahkozloff.bsky.social•6 days ago

I tried to tell a Head Start employee (and Trump voter) this and she didn't believe me.

overit22.bsky.social•6 days ago

Maybe show her this: https://apnews.com/article/head-start-funding-preschool-child-care-closures-1f92fa98f320c7c14db63e69b986d11d

rnmomof5.bsky.social•6 days ago

When is what he is doing going to be enough?!!!

lifewasgood.bsky.social•6 days ago

So what is the end game here?
Close daycares. Force a parent to leave work to take care of their child. GOP would prefer that to be the Mom. Gets women out of the workforce. Cut social safety nets. More families in poverty. Restrict reproductive rights. More babies. Where is this leading to?

ronchica.bsky.social•5 days ago

Meanwhile all babies must be born.

I know, let them eat cake (or buy a Tesla!)

mrsbeasley.bsky.social•6 days ago

This is cruel and a travesty. I don't even know what to do with my anger. One half million kids in poverty and with disabilities with be affected.

natrlredhd.bsky.social•6 days ago

It’s so exhausting and upsetting

offshorecapt20.bsky.social•6 days ago

Time for talking has passed, it’s time to SHOUT!

mungomortimer.bsky.social•3 days ago

This is a criminal act!!!! Half of the children in my Ohio shithole county depend on Head Start!!

blondthndrninja.bsky.social•6 days ago

I have a friend who has a full-time job and so does her husband she just had her second child. One day she was upset because the cost of daycare would end up being at least $300 per month since she has two children now. They both work in professional fields that's the really scary part

igastrulated.bsky.social•5 days ago

Wow. I paid $900 per child with two small kids in NY in 2006.

nctwadumela.bsky.social•6 days ago

We are about to become a third world country

nickigee.bsky.social•6 days ago

And buy crypto for the 'crypto reserve'

aggieman1973.bsky.social•6 days ago

It will be soon enough. There will be a delay between cause and effect. When the effects hit, a shitstorm is on the horizon.

ssimms.bsky.social•2 days ago

I've told everyone I know about Head Start, because it helped kids I know. The news is not sinking in. I also read Trump defunded Meals on Wheels, also helping in my state.

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