Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Monday that the department has rescinded Biden-era rules that required states to pay childcare providers before verifying attendance and before care was delivered.
“Congress appropriated this funding to support working families and ensure children have safe places to grow and learn,” Secretary Kennedy said in a written statement.
“Loopholes and fraud diverted that money to bad actors instead. Today, we are correcting that failure and returning these funds to the working families they were meant to serve.”
The Trump HHS will roll back provisions in the Biden-era Child Care and Development Fund rule that softened oversight and “increased the risk of waste, fraud, and abuse in federally-funded state child care,” which includes programs now
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