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.
That’s how ours is… And I’m just a normal dude with a toddler.
We pay them if the rascal is there or not.
Makes sense. They are selling you the option to one of the available childcare slots, which is a fixed number. They can’t sell more slots than they can accommodate, on the off chance every slot is used on a given day. To do so would drop the quality of care.
It’s not like they are airlines and can just bump you to the next available.
Its not even about quality of care its state regulations. They can only accept so many kids and need to have so many staff per state regs.
If I pull my kid from daycare, they are just out of daycare. They would be school age by the time I got a new slot.
I think the state regulations exist to assure a minimum safe level quality of care, so we are saying the same thing.
I mean, if airlines can do it…