a forward-looking agenda to rebuild care infrastructure
I will work to rebuild care infrastructure.
Occurrences
Evidence
"Throughout the day, Members of Congress, policy experts, and advocates outlined a forward-looking agenda to rebuild care infrastructure, expand access to affordable childcare, establish national paid family and medical leave, strengthen the caregiving workforce, and expand home and community-based services for seniors and people with disabilities."
The release says the broader work on rebuilding the post-COVID economy includes "universal access to paid family and medical leave" and "guaranteed access to childcare" as cornerstones of an equitable economy.
The appropriations page states that Gomez submitted FY26 community project funding requests, including health-center and care-related projects, and says expanding clinical space and patient care infrastructure would increase appointment availability, reduce wait times, and improve access to preventive services and chronic disease management.
"highlighting the challenges facing parents and the importance of building a country where families have the support they need."
Assessments
The promise is framed as an effort pledge rather than a guarantee of a completed nationwide policy outcome. In office, Gomez took concrete same-term actions in that policy area: he publicly launched a national caregiving push, convened a caregiving summit, promoted childcare and paid-leave measures as part of a care-infrastructure agenda, and submitted appropriations requests tied to patient-care infrastructure. That is sufficient to show he worked to rebuild care infrastructure, even though the broader system was not fully rebuilt.
The promise is broad and framed as an effort commitment ('will work to'). Evidence shows Gomez actively advanced the issue during his term by convening a national caregiving summit, publicly promoting a care-infrastructure agenda, and pursuing appropriations requests tied to care-related infrastructure. However, the record provided does not show that he fully achieved a defined federal rebuild of care infrastructure; it shows advocacy, agenda-setting, and funding requests rather than completed enactment of the broader promised outcome. Because he clearly worked on the promise but the larger result is not shown as accomplished, partial credit is the best fit.