Democrats are convinced that child care affordability will be a winning message for their party ahead of the 2026 midterms.
While Republicans have taken steps to make it more accessible, Democrats argue they are not doing enough to keep up with the rising cost of child care. And Democrats say they are prepared to make that case in the coming months.
“It’s one of the top issues that we hear about for families,” Sen. Lisa Blunt Rochester, the ranking member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions’ subcommittee on Education and the American Family, told NOTUS. “We would hope that our committees would be focusing on these things that matter to families, and we’re not seeing them.”