 The General Assembly passed a bill on Thursday that provides temporary funding for child care centers. Orange County Democratic Senator Greg Mayer. There's a stopgap on child care funding, but we have a child care crisis. We have an affordability crisis for working people in this country. How do they pay all their bills? And what we're trying to do here is keep one of those costs, the cost of child care, down. But this only does it for a few months.