Meeting participant urges states to fund daycare, not the federal government

A meeting participant argued in recorded remarks that the federal government cannot manage daycare and that states should take responsibility and pay for it. "We can't take care of daycare. You got to let a state take care of daycare. And they should pay for it, too," the participant said.

The participant said the United States should focus on national defense and leave programs such as daycare, Medicaid and Medicare to state governments, suggesting states "have to raise their taxes" to cover those services while federal taxes could be reduced in response. "But we it's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things," the participant said, adding that the U.S. must "take care of one thing. Military protection."

The transcript records an argument that responsibilities for childcare and some social programs are better managed at the state level; the record does not show a formal motion, vote or staff directive related to federal or state funding.