(CNSNews.com) – President Biden is expected to announce on Tuesday a set of executive actions to improve child care and care for elderly and disabled.

Biden is directing federal agencies to “identify which of their grant programs can support child care and long-term care for individuals working on federal projects, and consider requiring applicants seeking federal job-creating funds to expand access to care for their workers.”

“This builds off of the historic child care requirement for semiconductor employers seeking significant federal funding under the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 to submit a plan for how they will help employees access affordable child care,” the White House said in a fact sheet.

The president is also planning to make child care and long-term care more affordable by directing federal agencies to “lower costs for families benefitting from the Child Care & Development Block Grant (CCDBG) program, including by directing the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to consider actions to reduce or eliminate families’ co-payments for child care.”

Federal agencies will also be directed to “ensure the federal government is a model employer by supporting its own workforce.” To this end, the president’s executive order “directs the Office of Personnel Management to conduct a review of child care subsidy policy and consider setting standards for when and how federal agencies should provide child care subsidies to federal employees.”

“Additionally, all federal agencies will review opportunities to expand employee access to child care services through federal child care centers, child care subsidies, or contracted care for providers.

Federal agencies will also be expected to provide support for members of the military and their families by directing the Defense Department “to take steps to improve the affordability of child care on military installations.”

The president is also planning to improve access to home-based care for veterans, boost job quality for early educators, enhance job quality for long-term care workers, support family caregivers, advance domestic workers’ rights, ease construction of early childhood facilities for Native Americans, and engage affected communities.