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How do
we get to this point

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with this
childcare subsidy

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that is about to

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run out,
right at a point

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in an election
cycle, in a year

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where costs
are already this

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massive factor on
everybody's minds.

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Yeah.

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this is like a story

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that we've all been
covering

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incrementally
for years and years.

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And when I say
incrementally,

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what I mean
is people ringing

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that alarm bell
that we were heading

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towards this cliff.

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And now the thing
that advocates

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and providers
have been warning

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about
is about to happen.

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This new report

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came out last week
saying that

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potentially up

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to a quarter of
child care providers

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could close

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their doors,
and almost

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certainly more than

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that are going
to raise tuition

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after all of
these funds go away.

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Republicans
in the past

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and the legislature

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and we assume Tom
Tiffany's kind of

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in this category,
have looked at,

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you know,

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the private sector
means

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of trying to fix

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this childcare
issue of like,

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oh, let's lower

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regulations, let's

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find some discounts

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or some savings
elsewhere.

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But instead of
directly

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funding them,

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they've never liked

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that welfare idea,

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as Robin Vos would
constantly call it.

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And so the

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we don't see
Republicans

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coming back
to the table.

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This wasn't

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part of the grand
bargain

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that we talked

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about for a month
straight.

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So this is a dead
issue politically.

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There's
no one coming back

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in special session

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to find money
to fix this.

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They've all known
this date is here.

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The question is,
what will it mean

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going into the fall?

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How much damage
will we see

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leading up
to September?

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And maybe because

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September
means school's

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back in session,

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it'll be a little
less of

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a hot button issue,
but there will

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still be people
talking about it.

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And there will be
Democrats

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campaigning on it.