Trump said fixing child care would not be very expensive. Here are price tags for other proposals

Asked recently how he would bring down the high cost of child care, former President Donald Trump said doing so would be relatively “not very expensive” — at least, not compared with revenue from tax hikes he would impose on foreign goods. Some child care policy experts and economists are skeptical tariffs would raise enough to cover Trump’s tax cuts as well as a large-scale child care program. On one point, some child advocates agree with Trump: Fixing the child care system would not be very expensive compared with some other government expenditures. But the costs make it difficult politically to achieve.