November 7, 2024
WASHINGTON – Sondra Goldschein, Executive Director of the Campaign for a Family Friendly Economy PAC (CFFE PAC) released the following statement today on the election of Donald Trump and JD Vance:
“Donald Trump is no friend to working families, and we can expect him to do nothing to address the high cost of caregiving that cripples family budgets in his second term. Throughout the 2024 election cycle, the Trump-Vance campaign refused to meaningfully address cost-of-care concerns. Instead, they offered half-baked, out-of-touch ideas about child care and backed proposals to eliminate childhood education programs like Head Start. Although we are disappointed by the outcome of the election, the Campaign for a Family Friendly Economy PAC will proudly fight for a future where all people can afford to care for themselves and their loved ones and continue our efforts to build a groundswell of support and action on affordable child care and elder care, paid family and medical leave, and lower drug costs in 2026 and beyond.”
Throughout the length of their campaign, Donald Trump and JD Vance failed to offer a coherent answer about top-of-mind issues like affordable child care and paid family leave:
- Donald Trump gave a rambling, unfocused answer to a question about the cost of child care and seemed to offer foreign tariffs as the legislative solution.
- Trump’s Project 2025 calls for the elimination of Head Start, an early childhood education program that has served nearly 40 million children from low-income families and plays a critical role in rural communities and child care deserts.
- JD Vance called universal day care a “class war on normal people” and skipped a vote to expand the Child Tax Credit.
- Trump didn’t address cost-of-care issues at the RNC and diminished child care as just “some blocks and […] some swings and some toys.”
- Under his presidency, Trump’s tax plan denied the full $1,000 Child Tax Credit increase to millions of children in low-and moderate-income families and 1 in 5 child care workers lost their jobs.
- The former president tried to implement massive cuts to federal child care funding during his administration.
Despite Harris coming short of the presidency, her historic campaign highlighted the broad coalition of voters who have made clear that they want action taken to lower the cost of child care, make care for aging and disabled relatives affordable, and ensure that every American has paid leave. We were proud to have her back in this campaign.
Through robust door-to-door field and relational organizing programs, paid advertising, and direct mail to voters, CFFE PAC amplified Democrats’ plans to address top-of-mind issues and make lowering the costs of caregiving a core focus of races nationwide. CFFE PAC and the Campaign for a Family Friendly Economy also ran one of the country’s largest field operations talking to voters in battleground states this election cycle.
To hear more about CFFE PAC’s work this cycle, please contact press@familyfriendlyeconomy.org.
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The Campaign for a Family Friendly Economy PAC (CFFE PAC) is fighting for a future where all people can afford to care for themselves and their loved ones. In the 2024 election cycle, CFFE PAC ran its largest-ever program communicating with voters in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia, Ohio, and Montana about where candidates stand on policies that ensure paid family and medical leave, provide affordable elder and child care, and lower the cost of prescription drugs. In 2022, CFFE PAC ran a $13.5 million program that delivered that message in four battleground states, and in 2020, CFFE PAC spent almost $18 million on a program in support of Joe Biden and U.S. Senate candidates that spanned Wisconsin, Michigan, Maine, Iowa, Montana, Virginia, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Florida and Georgia.