I'm sure the decline in births has absolutely nothing to do with the extreme cost for having a kid, while the wages have increased .00001% in the last 25 years. This administration is fuckin clueless.
Won't buy a crib, stroller AND a car seat. Then no program for assistance with childcare, school lunch, babysitting, food, formula, etc. They can watch while their kid is mowed down at school by gun loving GQP assholes. These people are living in the 1950's.
That wouldn’t cover daycare for a year. Who’s he fooling? If you want birth rates to go up get in the right side of herstory. Restore female reproductive rights, pass universal daycare, free school meals, generous maternity leave, equal pay. The systems are set up to make babies a liability. Fix it.
What a cheap f*ck.
How far does $5k go with a baby?……..when health ins rates will skyrocket if you don’t lose it……..with head start programs cancelled…..funding for lunch and other programs axed……..and tariffs, real or fake, that will drive up costs on everything regardless?
Who in the flying monkey HELL do they think they’re fooling?
Oh.
Their Reality TV/meth trailer crowd and the few remaining Tradwives?
Who will NEVER GET THAT CHECK, guaranteed.
Oligarchs are hoping they can make the rest of us so miserable via out of control Trump&Congress that we'll do their dirty work for them, but settle in for the long haul instead-knowing tariffs are killing oligarchs😂🤣
I'd be looking ahead to what kind of life they might have with Trump not believing what scientists say about climate and enviro. The kids will pay......
As they cut all the programs for women and children! What is that 5k supposed to do and they tax the 5k so you will get less.. this is definitely for white women only because other demographics went up by 1% last year.. 👀
How about we give the people from the south that come here to work a path to citizenship. Many are Catholic and tend to have more children. Oh wait those aren't white children so of course we couldn't do that. 🥺🥺🥺
Didn't they call the ladys Welfare Queens??? But now they will pay $5000/child. And how much will this ad to the deficit??? Looks like Socialism to me.
Oh, oh! I think there may be a slight misunderstanding here! Can I offer you a virtual hug and a gentle nudge towards a more inclusive universe? Let's work together to spread the love and ensure everyone gets a chance to shine, regardless of their skin tone!
It costs about $300,000 to raise a child to 18 which would leave the woman $295,000 in the hole after that ridiculous $5,000 offer. 🙄 Idiot Republican men need to up their offer to at least $750,000 plus a great education & healthcare included. And perhaps free spa days for mom.
😂🤣 such morons
It is. They need to replenish the white race, much like how Nazi Germany offered financial incentives and national recognition for Germans who had many babies.
Republicans are not very good at foreseeing the consequences of their nutty actions. ("nutty" is a placeholder for much stronger, possibly profane options."
5K won't go anywhere if they get rid of Medicaid and other assistance. Cost of birth without insurance is about 28K. The state was already geared to promote children. Tax credits, Food Stamps, WIC and Medicaid. Section 8 housing too. They wanna ditch all that. They're dreaming.
We used to play up in Port Angeles, The Peking China. The club owner, a Chinese immigrant, used to say:
"Tonight, girl with baby...get check...bring...spend..." 🤣 (That's the way it is...don't fuck with the welfare, that's against the law!)🤣
Where's the bonus for people who take care of the kids already here?
5k doesn't even begin to cover healthcare costs for pregnancy and birth. These people are sick.
It costs $280,000 to raise a child to 18. $5k doesn’t even cover the cost of the hospital, or childcare, or diapers, cribs, high chairs, car seats & all the paraphernalia babies need. Hasn’t worked in any country that tried this
Only magas would grab at this little tid bit of cash, thinking it was a great thing. Hell, that wouldn't pay the hospital bill, formula, diapers, car seat, crib, clothing, etc etc for the first year. It's not the point anyway.
Great. They can get a $5k bonus and then do without HeadStart, school lunches, healthcare, etc Good extra cash for Christian right homeschooler with a rich sugardaddy 😱😱😱😱😱😱
Ah yes, the ol’ “baby bonus” from the party that once swore women had kids just to cash in on food stamps. Nothing says consistent values like reinventing welfare as long as it comes with a MAGA hat and a photo op.
They (conservatives) introduced the AUD$5k ‘baby bonus’ in Australia in 2002.
There was a fair rise in births for sure, but a bigger boost in flatscreen tv sales.
Yep, and conditional on the 'pale breeders' having at least three kids each. (Special offers for the poor lass who has to obey her deeply fundamentalist Magan husband and push out five or more.)
$5,000 is laughably cheap. Trump is either extremely out of touch with how expensive babies are, or is hoping people are dumb and will do anything for $5,000 dollars.
5k is a tiny drop in a vast ocean of burden. Pry that wallet open a bit more, Scrooge!
Most anyone can procreate. It doesn't mean they should. Quantity doesn't necessarily mean Quality. Not everyone are equipped to be good parents. W/dt adm firing ppl Willy nilly who can afford to have kids? Make good parenting easier like paying a parent to stay home & raise good decent kids.
Giving birth costs $18,865 on average, including pregnancy, delivery and postpartum care, according to the Peterson-Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) Health System Tracker.
The promotion of multiple birth programs alongside growing anti-vaccine sentiment could weaken herd immunity, increasing risks of preventable diseases, straining healthcare systems, and impacting public health, particularly in larger families. I guess the idiots in DC didn't consider this...
Hitler had the Mothers Cross given to women who had lots of Aryan babies to promote the Master race...... wherever Nazi Germany went, MAGA America seems determined to follow.....Heil!
Aren't these the same ol' fogies who think 10 cents is enough for a phone call and a jukebox song, and only tip their waitress a couple bucks, no matter how much is spent?
That $5,000 won’t feed em til they’re grown nor provide medical, education (they’re trying to kill it), childcare while you work! Besides they know they can’t do that! They just make up shit daily!
Give? I think you mean sell. 🤣😂 Or at least rent for the day. It's called trumpism. Wake up to new morality! That baby's gotta make a lotta mamas rich! [obviously kidding ppl]
Um…basically they are offering free gas but you have to buy a car! They are not talking about making daycare free…They want women back home barefoot and pregnant.
Of course, thinking of expanded health care, lowering costs and post-birth child care isn't part of his plan.
He's working from Heinrich Himmler's "Lebensborn" playbook. Only good, Aryan stock of course.
Given how Donald Trump is cutting funding for Head Start, food assistance (SNAP), schools, Medicaid, etc. $5,000.00 should not be a motivation for anyone. The only women who might benefit from this are those who do not need a safety net.
Only white women, only married white women, only white married women with a household income 50% above the poverty level, only white women who are married to white men, only white Christian women. The list goes on, there will be exceptions, that's how 47 operates.
Not sure I'd risk having a child these days as long as the government ensures that I couldn't get life-saving care in case of an emergency involving the pregnancy.
-Paid sick leave
-Paid family & medical leave
-Universal childcare
-Universal pre-K
-Expanded Child Tax Credit
-Programs to support reproductive health
And they're wondering why more people aren't having children?
Nobody wants kids because who the hell can afford them other than the billionaire oligarchy! It’s hard enough trying to take care of myself in this dying middle class economy!
This is also a tactic straight from the Nazi playbook. Hitler and his regime gave "Aryan" couples a loan of 1000 reichsmarks, 1/4 would be forgiven for each child birthed. There is also the Lebensborn project, which served already pregnant "Aryan" women. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/trump-motherhood-medal-pronatalist-nazi/
The white men want white women to step it up and start manufacturing those all white babies again. Come on ladies-just do it. Jump on that assembly line and smile for the cameras.
Trumps making sure there will be no health inspectors for food or dairy. No worries
Great, encourage stupid people to have more babies. Anyone with an IQ above 70 should know $5000 does nothing towards the total cost of having and raising a child.
Cute whilst taking away any money with regards to the medical costs of child birth or help with costs of feeding and educating children. GOP just want uneducated; poor future brainwashed voters.
Birth rates in the US have been falling. Why wouldn't they given the economic and political climate we live in? Paying women to have children is grotesque. First guarantee national healthcare and Roe v. Wade. in every state.
$297,674 is how much it costs today 2 raise a child 2 age 18, b4 paying 4 college, excluding tax credits. Imagine how much it will b after Trump destroys the value of the dollar completely. I have nieces who have good jobs & homes and already don't think they can afford kids.
NOTE:
The offer is only good if you're a conservative cis-het white female who is an able-bodied neurotypical professing loudly to be a Christian and that Jesus was Hitler's uncle.
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https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/lebensborn-program
The Trump administration are amoral. immoral. Fascists. List their mental moorings.
How far does $5k go with a baby?……..when health ins rates will skyrocket if you don’t lose it……..with head start programs cancelled…..funding for lunch and other programs axed……..and tariffs, real or fake, that will drive up costs on everything regardless?
Oh.
Their Reality TV/meth trailer crowd and the few remaining Tradwives?
Who will NEVER GET THAT CHECK, guaranteed.
They are such a band of idiots.
https://www.forbes.com/advisor/health-insurance/how-much-does-it-cost-to-have-a-baby/
😂🤣 such morons
It would be cheaper though to just go back to Roe v Wade
Put on a shit load of zeros and I might go for IVF oh yes and I’d have to emigrate…
Oh wait is it for non Americans?
They want an Aryan race. hmmm sounds familiar 🤔 😠
"Tonight, girl with baby...get check...bring...spend..." 🤣 (That's the way it is...don't fuck with the welfare, that's against the law!)🤣
5k doesn't even begin to cover healthcare costs for pregnancy and birth. These people are sick.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_of_Honour_of_the_German_Mother
Handmaidens?
There was a fair rise in births for sure, but a bigger boost in flatscreen tv sales.
5k is a tiny drop in a vast ocean of burden. Pry that wallet open a bit more, Scrooge!
So, normal for him.
Yeah, the math checks out from a tRump dementia lens.
https://abcnews.go.com/family/story/costs-raise-child-us/?id=120376717
https://www.forbes.com/advisor/health-insurance/how-much-does-it-cost-to-have-a-baby/
Now you’re responsible for the other $290K to raise the child.
Obviously, it's still a bribe.
But also, the cost of having kids - just the birth part is so much more than $5k.
They are so far out of touch with reality.
Five grand outta do it.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kamala-harris-child-tax-credit-6000-dnc-what-to-know/
He's working from Heinrich Himmler's "Lebensborn" playbook. Only good, Aryan stock of course.
So the Republican Party has historically blocked:
-Paid sick leave
-Paid family & medical leave
-Universal childcare
-Universal pre-K
-Expanded Child Tax Credit
-Programs to support reproductive health
And they're wondering why more people aren't having children?
The white men want white women to step it up and start manufacturing those all white babies again. Come on ladies-just do it. Jump on that assembly line and smile for the cameras.
Trumps making sure there will be no health inspectors for food or dairy. No worries
https://youtu.be/fUspLVStPbk?si=8J_4c5Bm4E3o-ntN&t=55
Make the world better or kick rocks!
Who's falling 4 this?
The offer is only good if you're a conservative cis-het white female who is an able-bodied neurotypical professing loudly to be a Christian and that Jesus was Hitler's uncle.