JD Vance's solution for child care costs? Make grandma watch the kids

How can working families manage the sky-high cost of child care? Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance has a plan for that—make grandma and grandpa do it instead. 

“So one of the ways that you might be able to relieve a little bit of pressure on people who are paying so much for day care is make it so that, you know, maybe like grandma [or] grandpa wants to help out a little bit more,” Vance said on Wednesday, during an interview with antisemite Charlie Kirk in Mesa, Arizona. “Or maybe there's an aunt or uncle that wants to help out a little bit more. If that happens, you relieve some of the pressure on all the resources that we're spending in day care.”

This is a special kind of bullshit coming from a guy who was lucky enough to have his mother-in-law take a yearlong sabbatical from her job as a biology professor to move in with Vance and his wife to help care for their new child. In 2020, Vance agreed with a podcaster that helping care for kids was “the whole purpose postmenopausal female.”

Vance wasn’t done talking “policy.”