position · 2026
Capping child-care costs and supporting early education
Van Hollen supported the Build Back Better plan’s universal early education and affordable child-care measures. Under the plan, no family would pay more than 7% of its income for quality child care, and the early-education measure was intended to give every child a good start.
Context: The passage describes measures in the Build Back Better plan, not an enacted policy.
In their own words
no family will have to pay more than 7% of their income on quality child care
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Retrieved: 11/10/2026