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The Trump administration is drafting a rule to allow married couples with a stay-at-home parent to collect federal child care subsidies currently reserved for working families.

The proposed change, championed by Vice President JD Vance, would tap the $12 billion Child Care and Development Fund to create the first federal benefit paying parents to stay home and raise their children.

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