Just as JD Vance’s response to the rising cost of childcare spurred blowback on Thursday, Donald Trump may have one-upped him during a question-and-answer session when he responded to a similar prompt with a meandering, 360-word statement with vague declarations, including that he “want[s] to stay with child care.”
A day after his running mate said that parents should look to family members for help and called for the elimination of “ridiculous” certifications that child care workers must obtain, Trump was asked a question along the same lines while at the prestigious Economic Club of New York.
Reshma Saujani, founder of the nonprofit organization Girls Who Code, prefaced her question by noting that childcare outpaces inflation and costs the economy more than $122 billion annually.
