Critics ask Trump Baby Bonus suggestion: “It's just completely banana”

The government of President Donald Trump examined paths to increase the country's birth rate, and the president himself said that he would not mind being known as “fertilization president”.

But congress democrats and activists say that the Republicans have long overlooked the growing costs for children and upbringing of children and ignore political solutions that are easily available.

“If they would like to encourage families to have children and feel seriously, they would work to reduce the costs of creating economic security for families,” Rep. Rosa Delauro, an 18-office democrat from Connecticut and a leading supporter of a federal family vacation program, told NBC News.

The fertility rate in the USA has decreased since 2007 and has reached a historical low in 2023 before being planned the following year, according to the centers for the control and prevention of diseases. But birth rates are falling worldwide, not only in the USA

The New York Times reported in April that some of the political parking spaces were made to the Trump government to encourage women to have more babies to give mothers 5,000 US dollars in cash and state financing courses. And transport secretary Sean Duffy sent a memo this year in which the department commissioned the financing for municipalities with higher birth and marriage rates.

A high -ranking officer of the White House confirmed the NBC News that the administration encouraged people to get babies and said: “We spoke about that during the campaign.”

Asked at an event of the White House for the proposed “Baby bonus,“ Trump said reporters that “it sounds like a good idea for me”.

But instead of a one-off payment, the expansion of the tax credit for children, which provides long-term tax benefits for some parents, would be a more reliable way to help families, said Rep. Jimmy Gomez, D-Calif., Head of the Congress Daders Caucus.

“Most costs are not one -time costs. When it comes to a child, they will last every month,” said Gomez. “The tax credit for children would be if it were forward – that is, if it was paid monthly – it would have an enormous impact on families.”

Gomez referred to the folk counting data and a Care.com report that showed that the middle housing costs were 31% as a percentage of income for tenants and 21% for homeowners in 2024. In the meantime, the parents spent an average of 29% of their savings for childcare costs in the same year.

However, the annual child tax credit approved as part of the tax cuts and the Job 2017 Job tax credit will expire at the end of the year, with creditworthiness for each qualified child drops to $ 1,000.

A group of Senate Democrats introduced a proposal for the expansion of the loan to $ 6,360 for newborns last month, whereby the loan gradually lowered $ 3,600 for children between the ages of 6 and 17.

Since the Republicans control the congress, the draft law is exposed to a strong headwind. However, some Republicans of the Senate have signaled the willingness to increase the tax credit for children in other ways if they consolidate plans to adopt a large tax bill in this session.

“I don't know if you have a real appetite,” said Gomez about the Trump government. “Because the solutions are available. Like people, they have been discussing for a long time. They are not new. And if you are serious, you would look at these solutions.”

Erin Erenberg, the CEO and co -founder of mothers, a non -participating non -profit group who supports the rights of mothers and parents in the USA, said their organization hears that women cannot afford to have children today.

“This is not a cultural crisis. This is a political failure,” she said. “Parenthood does not have to be stimulated – it has to be supported with every step of the path.”

Erenberg listed the three political proposals that their group believes that they “invite” motherhood: a federal holiday program, investments in the health of mothers and access to affordable childcare.

In a statement, the Press spokesman for the White House, Karoline Leavitt, said: “President Trump proudly implemented the guidelines for the increase in American families, from securing the border to order to keep violent criminals away from our communities, to reduce taxes and cost.”

Delauro wondered whether the Trump government is serious about encouraging women to have more children and quoted the other parts of his agenda, of which she said, they would hurt families.

“You have to take a look at what some of the suggestions that are really obstacles to encourage women, more children, have more children, more children,” said Delauro, pointing out the efforts of the Republicans of the Republicans to say goodbye to a reconciliation statement that has insured $ 880 billion from Medicaid, a federal program, the insurance for families and children with low income.

“There is a little congruence here when you talk about the fact that women have more children and families more children and at the same time set up enormous obstacles,” she added.

Gomez made a similar point in relation to Trump's plan to impose tariffs on the country's largest trading partners.

“My son goes through shoes like the business of anyone else. And … that's every toddler,” said Gomez. “They grow, grow and grow. … from 1 year to 5 years old, on average a toddler, an average of 16 pairs of shoes, between 15 and 60 US dollars on average. And 99% of the shoes bought in America are outside of this country.”

“And then when you look at cribs, car seats, strollers: almost everything is made outside of this country,” added Gomez. “And you will impose a tariff that will increase prices?”

When asked about potential price increases for the goods for children as a result of the tariffs, Trump, Trump said in an interview that was broadcast on Sunday, NBCS moderator of the press, the moderator Kristen Welker: “You do not have to have 30 dolls. You can have three. You do not have to have 250 pens. You can have five.” You can have five. “

When he was dismissed as less important when he was increasing the increasing costs of a common object for parents – stroller.

He replied: “If you say that strollers rise, what kind of thing? I say that petrol goes under. Petrol is more important than a stroller thousands.”

Trump has also advertised an executive order that he signed in February to expand access to IVF. At an event in women's history in March, he wrote Senator Katie Britt, R-Ala. In view of the problem and said: “I will be known as President of the fertilization, and that's okay.”

However, the command he signed did not make any changes to the current guidelines and was no longer promised on the campaign path to pay the government either for treatments for in -vitro fertilizations or to show that insurance companies cover them.

The administration has also made cuts in federal programs to improve access to fertility treatments. A CDC team that followed the IVF success rates across the country was disappointed last month as part of the larger cuts in government spending.

Pregnancy can also be dangerous; The maternal mortality rate in the USA is 18.6 per 100,000 live births, to the highest wealthy western nations, and according to CDC, child mortality increases. The White House also lowered financing for the nation's largest women's health.

“What really matters are the things that also happen at the same time to undermine people with children,” said Rep. Chrissy Houlahan, D-Pa, a co-chair of the cross-party family vacation for family vacation, said that the Trump administration is the mothers health programs that the feelings of mothers health programs, as in the United States, in the United States The United States, in the United States, meet in the United States in the United States, which happen in the United States in the United States, which happen in the United States in the United States. Start.”

“All of these things at the same time as a proposal as meaningless as a loan of 5,000 US dollars and at the same time destroys all support structures that enable them to get this child,” said Houlahan. “They are just completely bananas.”