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The Labor–Health and Human Services (HHS)–Education appropriations bill sets federal funding levels for important programs supporting our nation’s children. The Kids’ Share research team tracked four successive versions of the funding proposal: the president’s budget; the House bill, the Senate draft bill, and the final conference agreement signed into law in late December 2019. This analysis finds that Congress increased funding for Labor–HHS–Education programs overall, but little of the increase went to children’s programs. Levels of public investments in children are important to track because they have consequences for building the capacity of tomorrow’s workforce and economy.