{"id":26332,"date":"2025-04-21T14:00:26","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T14:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=26332"},"modified":"2025-04-21T15:23:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T15:23:42","slug":"trump-aides-solicit-ideas-to-raise-birthrate-from-baby-bonuses-to-fertility-planning-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=26332","title":{"rendered":"Trump Aides Solicit Ideas to Raise Birthrate, From Baby Bonuses to Fertility Planning"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The White House has been hearing out a chorus of ideas in recent weeks for persuading Americans to get married and have more children, an early sign that the Trump administration will embrace a new cultural agenda pushed by many of its allies on the right to reverse declining birthrates and push conservative family values.<\/p>\n

One proposal shared with aides would reserve 30 percent of scholarships for the Fulbright program, the prestigious, government-backed international fellowship, for applicants who are married or have children.<\/p>\n

Another would give a $5,000 cash \u201cbaby bonus\u201d to every American mother after delivery.<\/p>\n

A third calls on the government to fund programs that educate women on their menstrual cycles \u2014 in part so they can better understand when they are ovulating and able to conceive.<\/p>\n

Those ideas, and others, are emerging from a movement concerned with declining birthrates that has been gaining steam for years and now finally has allies in the U.S. administration, including Vice President JD Vance and Elon Musk. Policy experts and advocates of boosting the birthrate have been meeting with White House aides, sometimes handing over written proposals on ways to help or convince women to have more babies, according to four people who have been part of the meetings who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Administration officials have not indicated what ideas \u2014 if any \u2014 they might ultimately embrace. But advocates expressed confidence that fertility issues will become a prominent piece of the agenda, noting that President Trump has called for a \u201cbaby boom\u201d and pointing to the symbolic power of seeing Mr. Vance and other top officials attend public events with their children.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just think this administration is inherently pronatalist,\u201d said the activist Simone Collins, referring to the movement to reverse declining birthrates.<\/p>\n

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The White House has been hearing out a chorus of ideas in recent weeks for persuading Americans to get married and have more children, an early sign that the Trump administration will embrace a new cultural agenda pushed by many of its allies on the right to reverse declining birthrates and push conservative family values.One proposal shared with aides would reserve 30 percent of scholarships for the Fulbright program, the prestigious, government-backed international fellowship, for applicants who are married or have children.Another would give a $5,000 cash \u201cbaby bonus\u201d to every American mother after delivery.A third calls on the government to fund programs that educate women on their menstrual cycles \u2014 in part so they can better understand when they are ovulating and able to conceive.Those ideas, and others, are emerging from a movement concerned with declining birthrates that has been gaining steam for years and now finally has allies in the U.S. administration, including Vice President JD Vance and Elon Musk. Policy experts and advocates of boosting the birthrate have been meeting with White House aides, sometimes handing over written proposals on ways to help or convince women to have more babies, according to four people who have been part of the meetings who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations.Administration officials have not indicated what ideas \u2014 if any \u2014 they might ultimately embrace. But advocates expressed confidence that fertility issues will become a prominent piece of the agenda, noting that President Trump has called for a \u201cbaby boom\u201d and pointing to the symbolic power of seeing Mr. Vance and other top officials attend public events with their children.\u201cI just think this administration is inherently pronatalist,\u201d said the activist Simone Collins, referring to the movement to reverse declining birthrates.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26312,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26332"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26334,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26332\/revisions\/26334"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}