The one factor “The View” hosts delivered sooner than Donald Trump’s “baby bonus” promise was their skepticism.
On a Wednesday’s episode of “The View,” host Whoopi Goldberg kicked off the Scorching Subjects section with a raised eyebrow, introducing the White Home’s reported plan to fight declining start charges in America.
“The White House is looking into offering $5,000 cash bonuses, expanded access to IVF, along with other incentives for women to have more babies,” she stated, with a sarcastic grin.
Goldberg didn’t mince phrases, calling the concept “incredibly insulted,” and arguing that the administration “doesn’t know how women’s bodies work, and they don’t know what it costs to raise a child or just have a child.”
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She even did some fast math, declaring that after taxes, the supposed $5,000 would shrink to about $2,500 after Uncle Sam will get his minimize. She later turned to her fellow panelists and requested their ideas on the proposal.
Sara Haines didn’t maintain again both, saying the proposal was corresponding to “putting a band-aid on a deeper problem.”
“We don’t have paid family leave in this country or subsidized child care,” she famous, including that maternal mortality charges stay alarmingly excessive — a actuality she believes that the administration ought to be prioritizing over inhabitants incentives.
“I’m one of those people that I feel the earth is overpopulated,” Haines continued. “They want more babies because it affects not only the workforce, but paying into entitlement programs,” she stated, noting they’re lacking the larger image.
She prompt that the administration give attention to making ready for the rise of synthetic intelligence, which she believes can have a better long-term impression on social methods than start charges.
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Sunni Hostin chimed in as effectively, saying People ought to be asking not simply what is being proposed, however why — and by whom.
In the meantime, Goldberg remained unconvinced by the $5,000 determine, calling it offensive within the context of the very social packages the federal government has chipped away at lately. Earlier than she might end, Alyssa Farah minimize in: “Isn’t something better than nothing?”
Goldberg responded: “No!”
Farah tried to attract comparisons, arguing that if then-President Joe Biden had proposed the identical plan, it could’ve been hailed as “groundbreaking.”
Goldberg rapidly had a rebuttal for her fellow panelist.
“I don’t like the idea that somebody is saying, ‘I’m going to pay you to have more kids,’” Goldberg stated. “If you want people to have children, you have to not scare them by cutting all these programs that they may need.”
