After a busy and successful first international trip to Guatemala and Mexico at the beginning of the week, there was no publicly known schedule for the Vice President on Wednesday and Thursday.

On Friday, Vice President Kamala Harris and her team paid a visit to CentroNía, a bilingual early childhood education center in Northwest Washington D.C.

She met with staff and students and even participated in various activities including singing, having conversations and laughters as well as gave her American Flag pin to a students to wear.

VP Kamala Harris lets a young student wear her American flag pin.

Another student makes her laugh: “If he wears it, he’s the vice president.” pic.twitter.com/3dmdnKxyIs

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After that she delivered remarks on the Administration’s efforts to expand child care and relieve the financial pressures of parenthood. The current discussions involves new guidance on $15 billion in grants to support child care programs, forthcoming payments to families from the child tax credit and a separate credit to help parents pay for care.

These are all parts of the continued implementation of President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion relief package to help stimulate the U.S. economy which is slowly healing from the coronavirus pandemic. It has been estimated and expected that several million families will benefit from the assistance, while underscoring that the money should enable more parents to work and boost economic growth.

“We know that the pandemic did not invent these challenges, but it certainly accelerated these challenges,” Vice President Harris said. “Childcare centers were closed. Parents have been out of work. Families’ budgets have been stretched.”