Wisconsin’s 2025-2027 biennial budget includes several provisions aimed at improving the affordability of childcare in the Badger state, ending the misguided effort to directly support private childcare providers’ operating expenses with taxpayer dollars — and instead focusing on reducing costs for families through regulatory reform and targeted assistance.

It’s a win for Wisconsin families.

Wisconsin’s 2025-2027 budget leans into a market-driven approach. By June 2026, it phases out the Child Care Counts program — an emergency pandemic-related program that directly subsidizes the private operations of childcare providers. Instead, the budget ensures low- and moderate-income families with young children can receive government assistance to help cover their childcare, and it reduces regulations on child-to-staff ratios and on teacher requirements to help lower their overall costs.

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