October 15, 2024
WASHINGTON – Sondra Goldschein, Executive Director of the Campaign for a Family Friendly Economy PAC (CFFE PAC) released the following statement about Donald Trump’s laughable attempt to appeal to female voters.
“This is Donald Trump’s sad, last-ditch effort to clean up his lifelong track record of disrespecting women and the issues we care about. This is the same man who was found liable of sexual abuse, got caught on tape bragging about assault, is responsible for the repeal of Roe v. Wade, and literally has no idea what it’s like to think about child care costs. But three weeks out from Election Day, he suddenly cares about women’s issues in front of a cherry-picked FOX audience? Give me a break.”
While women across the country prepare to cast their ballots, Trump still struggles to offer a coherent answer about top-of-mind issues like affordable child care and paid family leave. As a reminder,
- 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.
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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 2022, CFFE PAC ran a $13.5 million program communicating with voters about where candidates stand on policies that lower the cost of prescription drugs, ensure paid family and medical leave, and provide affordable elder and child care. 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.