A Manhattan Project for more babies
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The conservative group behind the Project 2025 governing playbook for President Donald Trump’s second term is set to propose sweeping revisions to U.S. economic policy meant to encourage married heterosexual couples to have more children.
The Heritage Foundation, a right-wing think tank headquartered a stone’s throw from the U.S. Capitol, wants lawmakers to create new government-seeded savings accounts — for married people only.
It hopes to steer funding for child care away from programs like Head Start and toward individual families — specifically to encourage parents to stay home and rear children.
And the group wants Trump to issue executive orders requiring all proposed policies and regulations to “measure their positive or negative impacts on marriage and family” — then overhaul or end programs that score poorly.
Those ideas are part of a five-page executive summary of a forthcoming Heritage position paper titled “We Must Save the American Family.” It calls for a “Manhattan Project to restore the nuclear family” and induce couples to have more babies. A copy of the summary was obtained by The Washington Post.Po
The paper represents a pivot for Heritage away from its tradition of small government and free-market conservatism toward an ideology that embraces government intervention in affairs as private as procreation.
“For family policy to succeed, old orthodoxies must be re-examined and innovative approaches embraced, but more than that, we need to mobilize a nation to meet this moment,” states the paper, which was sent to Heritage policy experts by the group’s domestic policy vice president, Roger Severino.
Republicans in recent years have waded into the “pronatalist” movement, an ideology that some interpret to mean creating more family-friendly policies broadly and that others see grounded in their perception that the United States — and the planet at large — must produce more children to avert societal collapse.
Heritage President Kevin Roberts has made the institution’s pronatalist shift a key part of his vision, hoping in part to hew closer to an ascendant wing of the GOP, four people familiar with the think tank’s plans told The Post.
Vice President JD Vance, in his first public speech in office, declared: “I want more babies in the United States of America.” Many pronatalist leaders view Vance as the GOP’s most important cheerleader of their movement.
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How about you help feed the kids we already have? How about making sure they have proper healthcare? How about making childcare more affordable?.How about paying teachers more?
I swear it’s always about sex with these guys.
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How about you help feed the kids we already have? How about making sure they have proper healthcare? How about making childcare more affordable?.How about paying teachers more?
I swear it’s always about sex with these guys.
@Steve-Miller said in A Manhattan Project for more babies:
How about making sure they have proper healthcare?
What an interesting concept.
Meanwhile, in Florida:
Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo said Wednesday that the state will work to eliminate all vaccine mandates.
“All of them. All of them,” he said during a news conference as the crowd stood and erupted in applause. “Every last one of them is wrong and drips with disdain and slavery." He said the Florida Department of Health will work in partnership with the governor.
He said forcing vaccine mandates is “wrong” and “immoral.”
"Who am I as a government or anyone else, who am I as a man standing here now, to tell you what you should put in your body? Lapado said. "Who am I to tell you what your child should put in [their] body? I don’t have that right.”
Florida requires current vaccinations for students going to public school. Those requirements are outlined on the Florida Health website.
The state is not banning vaccinations.
“You want to put whatever different vaccines in your body, God bless you. I hope you make an informed decision,” Ladapo said. “You don’t want to put whatever vaccines in your body, God bless you. I hope you make an informed decision. That’s how it should be.”
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@Steve-Miller said in A Manhattan Project for more babies:
How about making sure they have proper healthcare?
What an interesting concept.
Meanwhile, in Florida:
Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo said Wednesday that the state will work to eliminate all vaccine mandates.
“All of them. All of them,” he said during a news conference as the crowd stood and erupted in applause. “Every last one of them is wrong and drips with disdain and slavery." He said the Florida Department of Health will work in partnership with the governor.
He said forcing vaccine mandates is “wrong” and “immoral.”
"Who am I as a government or anyone else, who am I as a man standing here now, to tell you what you should put in your body? Lapado said. "Who am I to tell you what your child should put in [their] body? I don’t have that right.”
Florida requires current vaccinations for students going to public school. Those requirements are outlined on the Florida Health website.
The state is not banning vaccinations.
“You want to put whatever different vaccines in your body, God bless you. I hope you make an informed decision,” Ladapo said. “You don’t want to put whatever vaccines in your body, God bless you. I hope you make an informed decision. That’s how it should be.”
@wtg said in A Manhattan Project for more babies:
"Who am I as a government or anyone else, who am I as a man standing here now, to tell you what you should put in your body? Lapado said.
So they don't think the government should be telling people what to do with their bodies. That's a new one. From their history of poking their noses in people's bedrooms to telling women what they can and can't do, to wanting to ban contraception, this seems quite a departure.
The industrial revolution cheapened everything.
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How about you help feed the kids we already have? How about making sure they have proper healthcare? How about making childcare more affordable?.How about paying teachers more?
I swear it’s always about sex with these guys.
@Steve-Miller said in A Manhattan Project for more babies:
How about you help feed the kids we already have? How about making sure they have proper healthcare? How about making childcare more affordable?.How about paying teachers more?
Exactly!!
I swear it’s always about sex with these guys.
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@wtg said in A Manhattan Project for more babies:
"Who am I as a government or anyone else, who am I as a man standing here now, to tell you what you should put in your body? Lapado said.
So they don't think the government should be telling people what to do with their bodies. That's a new one. From their history of poking their noses in people's bedrooms to telling women what they can and can't do, to wanting to ban contraception, this seems quite a departure.
@Bernard said in A Manhattan Project for more babies:
So they don't think the government should be telling people what to do with their bodies. That's a new one. From their history of poking their noses in people's bedrooms to telling women what they can and can't do, to wanting to ban contraception, this seems quite a departure.
Yep.
