President Donald Trump made these remarks during an Easter luncheon at the White House on April 1, 2026.
The event was closed to the press, but a video stream of the speech was briefly broadcast live on the White House social media accounts before being taken down.
During the remarks, Trump stated:
“Don’t send any money for daycare, because the United States can’t take care of daycare. That has to be up to a state. We can’t take care of daycare. We’re a big country. We have 50 states. We have all these other people. We’re fighting wars. We can’t take care of daycare. You got to let a state take care of daycare, and they should pay for it, too.”
“It’s not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things. They can do it on a state basis. You can’t do it on a federal. We have to take care of one thing: military protection. We have to guard the country.
But all these little things, all these little scams that have taken place… you have to let states take care of them.”
Typical irresponsible and irrational comments and yet some Americans don’t see a problem. I wonder if any of them participate in the Medicare scam?
Are you for real??? States cannot get K-12 straightened out, now you are busting about day care. Buck up and put on your big boy pants, you are turning into a socialist.
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“A country of 340 million in 2026 is quite different than a agrarian society of the 18th century concentrated along the east coast.”
Absolutely!
The problem is that folks IGNORE the Constitution when it suits them.
They interpret the clause “general welfare” to fit all kinds of vote buying schemes to favored constituencies.
I don’t have a problem when 38 states and Congress decide we need a national program, and amend the constitution, whether we are talking about Medicare, Medicaid, TANF, childcare or even the federal income tax.
Per your thoughts, we should only have a national income tax, why let the states choose?
Tell me, when it comes to Medicare, Medicaid, TANF, childcare, whatever, just what makes the federal income tax different than those programs?
Where is the Constitutional justification for those programs that we find in the 16th Amendment?
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All the idiot ass Trump was saying, in his own way, is that America has strayed from the original Constitutional intent of a federal government of limited, enumerated powers.
These are the direct powers granted to Congress, mostly found in Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution. The power to lay and collect taxes (not the income tax, which came much, much later by amendment), coin money, regulate interstate and foreign commerce, declare war, and raise armed forces. The framers listed these specific duties to ensure the national government had enough power to function without becoming a tyranny.
And, given the scope of today’s federal government, with its $2 Trillion a year in annual deficits for as far as the eye can see or the CBO cares to predict, and our $40+ Trillion in national debt and much, much, much larger unfunded liabilities for Social Security, Medicare and federal pensions, sure looks like a “financial” tyranny.
Would you voluntarily lend YOUR money to that organization to fund some new commitment for day care (say 30 year Treasuries) to be repaid to you long after you are dead? Americans want future generations to pay the taxes necessary to fund their entitlements today.
Supposedly, the federal government can only do what the Constitution explicitly allows it to do. Under the Tenth Amendment, any power not given to the federal government is reserved for the states or the people.
The real problem is that the idiot ass Trump, same as the enfeebled Biden, Obama, and Bush II as well as their members of Congress, all have a problem with those same constitutional limits?
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A country of 340 million in 2026 is quite different than a agrarian society of the 18th century concentrated along the east coast.
Following Trump’s logic and perhaps yours, there would be 50 versions of Medicare or none. There are such variables in Medicaid and frankly I can’t understand how someone’s access to healthcare or how the poor are treated in the United States should depend on the state they reside.
The more we deviate from “United” the weaker we will be. You can see that in education. States that don’t like taxes put that priority over their education systems, but it’s not the state that suffers in the long run.
On the other hand, Trump clearly demonstrates what can happen when the checks and balances do not function as intended.
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Clearly, childcare IS a major issue for households who have minor children.
Per KPMG: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/hidden-workforce-impacts-childcare-challenges-matthew-nestler-phd-5egoc/
“… Millions of households regularly adjust work and caregiving arrangements to cope with childcare challenges. Yet many of those adjustments are not captured by narrow measures of whether childcare prevented additional work hours. As a result, the workforce and economic impacts of childcare instability are substantially larger than they may first appear. Childcare is essential infrastructure that supports workforce participation and economic activity. Given the fragile state of that infrastructure in the United States today, households absorb the shocks through a range of responses. That has negative spillover effects on workers, employers and the broader economy…. “
However, the only differences (compared to decades ago) are that in many more situations today, both spouses work and/or a significant portion of households have a single parent.
That doesn’t make it a federal issue, any more than, say, state paid and unpaid leave laws.
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