When I ran For President in 2020, I talked about child care literally at every single stop. While every other Democrat supported expanding child care. It just wasn't the key thing that they talked about. So When Joe Biden was elected, we were in the throes of COVID pandemic, and it ripped back the curtain on just how fragile our cobbled together child care system really is. Everybody faced it head on at that point. And for the first time in a long time, we had the Democratic trifecta, the House, the Senate, the White House. (08:00–08:12)
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Asserts that the COVID pandemic exposed the fragility of the U.S. child care system.
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