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Trump Says U.S. Can’t Fund Daycare, Medicaid While Fighting Wars
Trump said states should fund child care and health programs as the Pentagon seeks $200 billion to continue the Iran war, drawing backlash from Democrats.
- President Trump suggested states should raise taxes to fund daycare, Medicaid and Medicare while the federal government focuses on "military protection."
- Trump said "We're fighting wars, we can't take care of daycare," arguing the federal government cannot afford to fund such programs.
- Sen. Elizabeth Warren criticized Trump, stating "Imagine if instead of funding forever wars in the Middle East, the United States delivered universal child care and health care for all Americans.
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Trump Says We Need To Focus Money On War, Not Daycare
GettyPresident Donald Trump attended an Easter Luncheon on Wednesday, April 1, where he said some shocking things about what the federal government should be spending money on right now. Hint: not on caring for our country’s very young or very old. The President explained that the federal government should not be subsidizing daycare because they need to focus all of its money on war, and he did not parse words. He added that he did not think the…
‘Wow, he actually admitted it’: Trump says US can’t pay for childcare because it’s ‘fighting wars’ instead
This story originally appeared in Common Dreams on April 02, 2026. It is shared here under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) license. Two days after Secretary of State Marco Rubio unironically advised Iran to spend its public funds “helping the people of Iran” instead of on weapons, President Donald Trump announced that the US government has “to take care of one thing: military protection” and isn’t able to provide people in the US with neces…
Trump suggests states raise taxes to pay for child care, says federal government can’t afford it
President Trump said Wednesday states should raise taxes to pay for day care, arguing that the federal government cannot afford to fund child care for all 50 states.
Trump says it's 'not possible' for the U.S. to pay for Medicaid, Medicare and day care: 'We’re fighting wars'
President Donald Trump on Wednesday said it’s “not possible” for the federal government to fund Medicare, Medicaid and child care costs, arguing that it should be up to the states to “take care” of those programs while the federal government focuses on military spending
We are a great country, we are fighting wars. We cannot deal with kindergartens. We cannot deal with individual things, such as kindergartens, Medicare, Medicaid. This is what the President of the United States, Donald Trump, said at a recent press conference. "We can only deal with one thing at the moment," added the tycoon, "that is to say our military protection." The article Trump: "We can't deal with kindergartens and health care. We are at…
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