This cracked me up on a couple levels. First, when do the progressives start caring about military families to begin with?
Second, child care was explicitly exempt from the federal hiring freeze back on 1 Feb. Three weeks ago, The Hill reported that the Pentagon made an exception which specifically mentions childcare workers in the military.
Pentagon moves to exempt some civilians from hiring freeze
According to the memo, written by acting Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Work, Mattis has directed the service secretaries, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Pentagon’s inspector general, the deputy chief management officer for the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Defense agencies and Defense Department field activities to decide which specific jobs to exempt from three overarching categories.
The first category is 16 groups identified by Mattis as necessary to meet national security or public safety responsibilities. The groups include positions directly supporting overseas missions, cybersecurity positions, jobs providing childcare for military personnel, positions involved in nuclear reactor and weapons safety, and jobs in shipyards and depots directly involved in inventory management and equipment maintenance.
But the fake news MSM ran with it anyway.
Bill O’Reilly addressed this issue last night with an update from Shannon Bream of FOX News. Skip to the 15:33 mark to see the segment.