FY2024 Funding Priorities in Presidential Budget Request

As you negotiate a final appropriations package for fiscal year (FY) 2023, we respectfully urge you to include the highest possible funding amount for the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG). We appreciate that both the House Committee-passed Appropriations bill and Senator Murray’s Democratic bill include a funding increase of $1 billion above the FY 2022 enacted level for CCDBG—funding that would be a welcome down payment to ensure families can access affordable, high-quality child care. Given the critical needs of the sector, and the call by Members from both parties to significantly increase funding for child care, we urge Committee leadership to include the highest possible funding amount for CCDBG in a final package and to consider calls to double funding for CCDBG, providing a total funding increase of $6.17 billion.