No Funds for Repeat Child Care Violations Act of 2026
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Mr. SUBRAMANYAM. Mr. Speaker, I thank the ranking member for yielding.
H.R. 7726 is supposedly intended to address fraud in childcare programs, but all it actually does is give the administration more power to withhold childcare funding as political retribution.
This is happening particularly at a time when the cost of childcare is skyrocketing. I am so glad we are talking about fraud because this is an administration that has embraced waste, fraud, and abuse.
This is a President who tried to steal taxpayer money by suing his own government and then set up a $1.8 billion slush fund for his friends and allies, and his family has made billions from pay-to-play business deals all around the world.
That is not all, because he has used his pardon power to pardon fraudsters left and right, including white-collar criminals convicted of money laundering; corrupt politicians who stole millions in public funds and even trafficked drugs; and even insurrectionists, including one who was later charged with child sex abuse and molestation.
These pardons have wiped out over $1.5 billion in compensation owed to actual crime victims. The administration has made sure there is no one left to investigate this fraud because the Department of Justice office in charge of investigating corruption used to have 40 attorneys in it, and now it has 2.
That is why, at the appropriate time, I will offer a motion to recommit this bill back to committee.
If the House rules had permitted, I would have offered the motion with an important amendment to this bill. My amendment would prevent the bill from taking effect until the Department of Justice provides a list of all the individuals pardoned by the President of the United States who were convicted for committing fraud.
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Mr. SUBRAMANYAM. Mr. Speaker, I have a motion to recommit at the desk.
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Mr. SUBRAMANYAM. Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.
The yeas and nays were ordered.
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