Baby bonus of $5000 & menstrual cycle classes are among ideas Trump considers as he aims to boost US birthrate. But these ideas dont address the real problems-kids cost a lot. $5000 doesn't begin to cover child care, housing costs, all the needs of each child www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/u... - ThreadSky

miafarrow.bsky.social • 65 days ago

Baby bonus of $5000 & menstrual cycle classes are among ideas Trump considers as he aims to boost US birthrate.

But these ideas dont address the real problems-kids cost a lot. $5000 doesn't begin to cover child care, housing costs, all the needs of each child

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/us/politics/trump-birthrate-proposals.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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emilyanna.bsky.social•65 days ago

Affordable f$&@ing housing!!!!

rnb2rock.bsky.social•65 days ago

Many policies the gop has been against would have naturally increased birth rates, equal pay for equal work, family leave, gun control, universal Healthcare etc

fluffyxenomorph.bsky.social•64 days ago

Well, had I been able to afford it, also a stable home, me not working 80 hour weeks, having had at least some support from ANYONE. How am I supposed to raise a child when I can barely afford to keep myself housed even though I barely live there because I have to work constantly.

lilelile.bsky.social•65 days ago

He’s targeting very poor people. $5k looks like a million bucks to someone who’s always hungry.

thatsthefactjack.bsky.social•65 days ago

So basically it’s a $70,000 baby bonus for Elon Musk. Cool 👶👶👶👶👶👶👶👶👶👶👶👶👶👶

picklessorrell.bsky.social•65 days ago

They don’t want women to be able to afford children. They just want them to have babies so they can adopt or outright steal them. Then they can traffick them or make them part of God’s army depending on their level of depravity. Remember the kids Betsy DeVos took from their parents the border?

hattie17.bsky.social•65 days ago

That’s because the plan is to encourage birthing babies, not raising them.

lolarites.bsky.social•65 days ago

The birth rate dropped off when women were forced to go to work because their husbands jobs couldn’t support the family. Fatso is making the economy worse, he’s pushing things in the wrong direction.

liverpool79.bsky.social•65 days ago

Sounds like something from Elon.

sailingsteve.bsky.social•64 days ago

JD. has to step up his game. Only two kids.

jodyboo.bsky.social•65 days ago

And overpopulation

boycottbeefusa.bsky.social•64 days ago

They legit just said they going to roll back testing of milk to make sure it has no bacteria, but they want more babies? What’s everyone going to do, pasteurize their milk at home? (Moms don’t have enough work, I suppose??)

nici17.bsky.social•65 days ago

They need to stay out of our personal life.

thanhneville.medsky.social•63 days ago

Maybe instead of giving each mom $5000, create a country that is kind and safe to raise a child in.

researchgirl007.bsky.social•63 days ago

Men deciding what women need in ways that don't inconvenience them. Yawn.

cindyhoohoo.bsky.social•63 days ago

Breeders -that's what they want. Specifically Blonde and Blue eyed, amirite?

davidac64.bsky.social•63 days ago

As if $5,000 would even cover maternity care and delivery. Please! What a joke.

jwkeller.bsky.social•65 days ago

Here’s an idea, why not increase immigration of young adults from countries experiencing excess population pressures and fast track citizenship for those eager to join and are able to find work

toolman78.bsky.social•64 days ago

This stuff has been tried in Europe and failed. With immigration you don’t need this anyway. US birth rate is negative and only immigration can supply needed workers. Terrible reaction to an easy to fix problem.

katrina1000.bsky.social•65 days ago

The movie “Idiocracy” becomes reality.

amontoya77.bsky.social•65 days ago

$5000 doesn’t cost the hospital bill from giving birth!

ekvanberg.bsky.social•65 days ago

It’s all backwards. He needs to reinstate the education department first. And raises for teachers. Most can’t even care for the children they already have with this economy.

alannamodeling.bsky.social•65 days ago

Did you see the article where they were talking about awarding medals to mothers who gave birth to 6 kids or more? Does that idea sound fürmiliar?

miss-spider.bsky.social•64 days ago

"Gave birth", specifically? No medal to the mom who adopted 6?

profjabbott.bsky.social•65 days ago

Look they're not saying the obvious part... they want more middle-class white babies. They don't care about families who need childcare.

rattysman.bsky.social•65 days ago

Cos those bastards are so committed to giving all children a good life.

thereal.iamtmo.com•65 days ago

I have THE Fucking idea. Please pass this on to the administration. "Make sure everyone and I mean everyone in the United States has Free Healthcare and is Paid a Living wage of at least 20.00 per hour and keep housing cost and groceries toa minimum. I promise people will make babies.

andymac.amlm.us•65 days ago

$5000 won’t cover the cost of the birth!

bennythesnitch.bsky.social•65 days ago

History does not repeat but it rhymes-Mark Twain

Order of Maternal Glory: Created on 8 July 1944 by Joseph Stalin,
First class: mothers bearing and raising nine children.
Second class: mothers bearing and raising eight children.
Third class: mothers bearing and raising seven children.

bennythesnitch.bsky.social•65 days ago

They were also entitled to a number of privileges in terms of retirement pension, the payment of public utility charges, and the supply of food and other goods.

0-me-0.bsky.social•65 days ago

I don't think he's basing this on the Soviet model.

This seems more likely - Honour Crosses for German Motherhood:

bennythesnitch.bsky.social•65 days ago

All the same

0-me-0.bsky.social•65 days ago

Fair.

jpvtme.bsky.social•63 days ago

https://www.change.org/p/baby-bearing-boycott?recruiter=447072178&recruited_by_id=e9ba2a1c-cb52-4e9e-8d75-311a2b766709&utm_source=share_petition&utm_campaign=starter_onboarding_share_personal&utm_medium=copylink

doramartinkova.bsky.social•64 days ago

We had kindergartens that the parents didn't have to pay for, free health care, cheap housing. And still the policy didn't work. We wanted the freedom to choose. People want children when they're not worried about war and climate change.
https://zpravy.aktualne.cz/baby-boom-and-immigration-prop-up-czech-population/r~i:article:508527/

doramartinkova.bsky.social•64 days ago

Czechoslovakia in the 1970s. Normalization and Husák's Children. The population surge was planned, which was a non-negotiable condition in a socialist society, but it went over the heads of its planners after a few years. 🤣 What about child care, schools ... 5000 dollar's is nothing.

miss-spider.bsky.social•64 days ago

Learning about the menstrual cycle normally starts in 4th grade- in schools that actually allow sex ed.

$5,000 doesn't begin to cover the healthcare costs.
These people are sadistic.

chaoborus.bsky.social•64 days ago

I have a feeling that the long game is to make child care so expensive that it forces mothers to leave employment and stay and home, reducing their contributions to Social Security and either increasing their retirement age or just ensure their reliance on their stereotypical 1950's husbands

daverakowski.bsky.social•65 days ago

Is it money? Or is it a belief that there's hope for a future? Given the current state of our country I wouldn't have another kid if they gave me a million dollars.

nhboxy.bsky.social•65 days ago

Deplorable, just Deplorable

patclatter.bsky.social•65 days ago

The NATZI’s had a plan for this. Bet he goes there next. Evil and the master race.

jmpwe14.bsky.social•65 days ago

Also this is weird. It is none of the government’s damn business.

sailkate.bsky.social•65 days ago

It's ironic that when Republicans are pushing birth, at the same time they are attacking the children's health. Yes, lets birth more children but then lose them to early death due to lack of vaccines, adequate nutrition for Moms and babies, closure of birth centers, and inadequate health care.

sailkate.bsky.social•65 days ago

If the kids make it further, cut school lunches, school nurses, day care to allow parents to work, and ongoing medical care. If they live thru that expose them to school shootings and arbitrary mental health damage.

chaoborus.bsky.social•64 days ago

I my working years I've had two fiscally conservative right-wing employers who were female who told me "you don't hire women, because next thing they do is go out and get pregnant."

Ironically, the 2nd one who told me that proceeded to show me pictures of her children and grandchildren 🙃

chaoborus.bsky.social•64 days ago

Not too long ago the GOP despised women for being "breeders" and "only having kids to get socially funded welfare"

I guess they still despise women, but somehow think $5K will lure them into parenthood

Love this "First Month Free!" marketing

chaoborus.bsky.social•64 days ago

This of course is proposed by billionaires who don't have to worry about their own child care costs, health insurance premiums, the cost of food, etc.

alolmsted.bsky.social•63 days ago

Yes, what babies and kids need are health care, Head Start, school breakfasts, school lunches, after school programs, qualified teachers, good role models in our Government, personal safety and security, .... all things Trump World wants to cut or privatize. But, going full Handmaid's Tale - insane.

lswlsw.bsky.social•65 days ago

How about we the people and our taxes educate, feed, shelter and care for baby's and children first!

4jaysand1emme.bsky.social•65 days ago

I read yesterday that baby gear like car seats and strollers will increase significantly in cost due to the tariffs. Then cuts in Medicaid, and no paid family leave, and childcare costs. They’ve made it more difficult to have children.

miss-spider.bsky.social•64 days ago

They're also going to stop testing MILK for safety.

4jaysand1emme.bsky.social•64 days ago

Incredible. 😠

dianeleigh.bsky.social•65 days ago

You could spend 1k (and more) just for diapers for the first year. With (considering workplaces) up to 4k the first year for food.

5k would cover food and diapers, but not medical, insurance (at my place, 100/you, 700/you + kid / month)

dianeleigh.bsky.social•65 days ago

To say nothing of not even paying probably a quarter of the actual birth itself and none of the other. Maybe if they offered 100k/child.

sunnylet.bsky.social•65 days ago

Why would women risk prison or a death sentence if anything happens to the foetus?

o3dipamaas.bsky.social•65 days ago

These pro-natalists won't stop with incentives. They will ban abortions and contraception, turning America's women into docile baby-making subjects of the patriarchy. Fascists in the 20th century did the same: the want more white babies.

resonanteye.bsky.social•65 days ago

we all know how that story ends

islomane.bsky.social•65 days ago

All part of the Great Replacement Conspiracy Theory.

zizzies.bsky.social•65 days ago

White babies only…us white folks need to start having babies with black and brown folks….
The white race will soon be a minority, let’s do our part to help it along…

sarsk71.bsky.social•65 days ago

Kamala talked about the child credit, the radical right hated it!

jaeleighdee.bsky.social•65 days ago

W. T. F.

artstudio322.bsky.social•65 days ago

In Australia a new baby in the family the government gives them $25,000

guttersnipe1071.bsky.social•65 days ago

And given Trump’s past displays of brilliance, he probably thinks “menstrual cycle classes” means putting women on standing bikes until they’re ovulating.

janinam.bsky.social•65 days ago

Only white women need apply....

lpeterp.bsky.social•65 days ago

terrifiedstill2024.bsky.social•65 days ago

So fucking sick

mjcapellupo.bsky.social•65 days ago

How Trump says he’s a Nazi without saying he’s a Nazi.

mahalomalama.bsky.social•65 days ago

I’m confused… Whatever happened to population control due to overpopulation of the planet?

whitchyprincess.bsky.social•65 days ago

More privacy breaches and control from ignorant controlling MEN! Fuck off🤬🖕🏻

whitchyprincess.bsky.social•65 days ago

Maybe they can have men go through birth! It’s an awful process and it has its serious life threatening complications which they don’t allow doctors to treat anymore because women’s lives don’t matter!
They just want slaves.
I love my kids but I wouldn’t have them now!

streetphotognyc.bsky.social•65 days ago

When these ideas fall flat, he'll just have a program where perfect arian... um meant perfect American women will just be used as breaders. Maybe he'll call it the lebensborn program...

pattycpattyc1.bsky.social•65 days ago

Sounds familiar

https://www.holocaust.org.uk/gold-mothers-cross

cmadams5.bsky.social•64 days ago

100%, how is the cost of having a child covered from birth to adulthood? Having and raising a child is a significant expense and responsibility far greater than $5,000. This “baby bonus” suggestion is incredibly ignorant.

krys-de.bsky.social•65 days ago

Ew. And I’m sure next Elon will be lining up to offer to be the dad of the baby so he can build his creepy little army of offspring to populate the world.

oneonline.bsky.social•65 days ago

What about the IFV he promised!?!

ladycross.bsky.social•65 days ago

There's also the possibility that the want women at home having babies and cooking hubby a good meal. Let's go back to the 1950s...not.

ethicsshouldmatter.bsky.social•65 days ago

It doesn’t even cover the existing benefits they are in the process of eliminating for billionaire tax cuts

grahamclester.bsky.social•65 days ago

The more people understand the menstrual cycle the less babies they are going to have.

bamajennie.bsky.social•65 days ago

Cost was the main factor for me limiting our family to one child. I longed for many children. We both had to work to support the family so time was a factor. So many factors in nurturing a child such as childcare cost, medical care, education, and time. Thanks to GOP union busting wages are low.

drmon01.bsky.social•65 days ago

This is right out of Nazi Germany when women were given medals & privileges based on the number of healthy children you 'gave to the Reich'

jefff61.bsky.social•65 days ago

Elmo has been pushing the low birthrate thing today.

hrhenviroangel.bsky.social•65 days ago

He’s delusional.

frstevenclark.bsky.social•65 days ago

He could start by making it safer to have a baby.

enragedapostate.bsky.social•65 days ago

White people only need apply

goread.bsky.social•64 days ago

These are the same people who complain about sex ed in school for cripes sakes.

I'll bet they intend for the class to actually track (and report) the cycles of the girls in the class. I suspect it's also a way to hide monitoring for abortions.

jdakotapowell.bsky.social•65 days ago

Reality check: Women are breadwinners in almost half of heterosexual marriages in US (Pell). They not only bear the brunt of child care & household duties, they're holding down jobs. After COVID, women are exhausted.

Men need to contribute more to household & child care for the birth rate to rise.

marthawannabe.bsky.social•65 days ago

How about paid maternity leave, government sponsored child care, government sponsored school meals, government sponsored higher education?

macbees.bsky.social•64 days ago

Roll back SNAP, Medicaid, ACA, Head Start, School budgets —virtually everything that will help families! plus rot teeth with no fluoride and wipe out jobs with tariffs.

chaoborus.bsky.social•64 days ago

They assume a $5K "First Month Free" payment will be too sweet to pass up

They need to be reminded that children aren't storage units or gym memberships

groovus1.bsky.social•65 days ago

His menstrual cycle is nothing more than tracking girls to make
it easier to find out about abortion plans

thehalfman.bsky.social•65 days ago

$5000 wouldn't even cover daycare for one kid for a year. Some places, probably not even a semester.

732lighthouse.bsky.social•65 days ago

Trump’s destroying our children’s lives (healthcare/education/environment/consumer costs/national security ETC) Guys like Trump, Musk have warped perverted minds. Trump’s countless crimes continue; he & henchmen should be thrown-out of public office!

sionxxii.bsky.social•65 days ago

lebensborn

wcboys.bsky.social•65 days ago

So the people who think the govt is too financially involved in peoples lives and people should aspire to get by on their own without govt help is proposing a plan whereby the govt provides financial aid to people they just claimed were too dependent on the govt for help.

Did I get that right?

catone85.bsky.social•65 days ago

Having babies is not for every woman. Children are precious and they deserve to be loved and properly cared for. Having and raising a child costs more than money. If I were of child bearing age, I would think twice about becoming pregnant. Our environment is a mess, and so is our country.

hyperthermostatic.bsky.social•65 days ago

Let's be clear, this means "white" birth rate. #HowDisgusting

0-me-0.bsky.social•65 days ago

Lebensborn.

hyperthermostatic.bsky.social•65 days ago

yep.

williamlmiller.bsky.social•61 days ago

We don’t have a problem with birth trends. We’re still adapting to eliminating teen pregnancy over the last 30 years.

1967honoredqueen.bsky.social•65 days ago

Just like Hitler. Soon he will be pairing certain & women, too. This is all a horror.

1967honoredqueen.bsky.social•65 days ago

certain men & women, just like Hitler. Sorry for the poor proofing. 😞

potatostick.bsky.social•65 days ago

Looking forward to seeing who will be this era’s Dorothea Lange who gets tasked with documenting the countless dirt poor, desperate women with eight starving kids tugging on their skirt’s unraveled hems.

bradpnw.bsky.social•65 days ago

If he raised taxes on the rich.. The middle and lower class would prosper. If the cap on social security was raised, Old people would prosper.
Instead he’d rather throw money at a problem thinking that’s how to solve everything.

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