Include $50 Billion in COVID-19 Relief Package for Child Care

We, the undersigned organizations, are grateful for the bipartisan attention that the child care sector has received over the past few weeks. The HEALS Act will offer some relief to the child care sector, but not nearly enough to save our child care system from collapsing. In fact, the Act’s $15 billion investment would keep the system afloat for less than two months and falls far short of the at least $50 billion that is needed to stabilize the system.1 Further, this bill would leave children and providers unsafe and at risk of exposure to dangerous or unhealthy conditions by giving states discretion to rollback key health and safety provisions. This would only undermine and destabilize the child care industry.