The U.S. government officially shut down on October 1, 2025, after failing to agree on a budget for fiscal year 2026. This shutdown interrupts critical programs and funding, hurting Michigan’s young children, families, and communities. This threatens Michigan’s already strained early childhood systems, and more importantly, the families who rely on them.
Now is the time: Join ECIC in telling Congressional lawmakers to pass a federal budget that prioritizes early care and education, affordable health care, and other essential services that families and young children across Michigan rely on.
- Visit ECIC’s Action Center to contact your federal lawmakers.
- Use ECIC’s federal-focused Budget Action Toolkit to spread the word. Share the included social media graphics, captions, and newsletter language to encourage your networks to reach out to their lawmakers about the need for a federal budget now.
Michigan’s young children and families need you to raise your voice on their behalf: tell Congress that we urgently need them to pass a budget that prioritizes and protects young children.