Why It Matters

The National Association for Family Child Care (NAFCC) terminated its lobbying contract with Actum I LLC in April 2026, according to a second quarter Lobbying Disclosure Act (LDA) termination filing signed Friday, June 5.

The NAFCC lobbying termination comes at a turbulent time for the family child-care sector. The issues Mederos was lobbying on, including child care authorization, federal appropriations, and Medicaid cuts, are all active pressure points in the current Congress.

There is no data in the current disclosure record indicating NAFCC has retained a replacement firm.

By The Numbers

The filing listed $10,000 in lobbying activity and covered child care authorization and funding, the fiscal year 2026 and FY 2027 Labor, Health and Human Services (HHS), and Education Appropriations bills, and Medicaid cuts under P.L. 119-21.

NAFCC is a nonprofit with an estimated annual revenue of around $5.6 million, making a $10,000 lobbying contract a modest but meaningful line item for an organization of its size. Actum I LLC's lobbyist on the account, Letty Mederos, was the sole registered lobbyist working on NAFCC's behalf.

Broader Context

NAFCC has been publicly vocal about recent federal policy changes. In May 2026, the organization responded to HHS's rollback of the CCDF Final Rule, which reversed protections around co-payment caps, enrollment-based payments, and grants and contracts provisions. Roughly 75% of family child care programs accept Child Care and Development Block Grant funds, meaning federal subsidy policy directly affects the providers NAFCC represents.

The lobbying disclosure also references P.L. 119-21 and Medicaid cuts, a significant concern for NAFCC's membership, given that many of the low-income families served by home-based providers rely on Medicaid coverage. The reconciliation debate in Congress has kept Medicaid cuts at the center of the legislative calendar, and advocacy groups across the social services sector have been scrambling to respond.

FY26 and FY27 appropriations for the Labor, HHS, and Education accounts remain unresolved, with child care funding lines among the contested items. For an organization whose members depend on federal subsidy flows, the stakes of the appropriations process are direct and immediate.

The Bottom Line

Mederos brings a background that spans the House Appropriations Committee across the 112th, 115th, and 116th Congresses, as well as the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee across the 113th, 114th, and 115th Congresses. She also has experience with the House Education and the Workforce Committee from the 113th Congress. Her congressional experience includes work with former Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), former Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D-NM), and former Rep. Carrie Meek (D-FL), all Democrats with records on appropriations and social services issues.

That background, particularly on the House Appropriations Committee and HELP Committee, is directly relevant to the issues NAFCC was lobbying on.

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