The Trump administration may pay families to stay home and raise their children, reports indicate. According to The New York Times, officials are considering a rule that would allow married couples with one stay-at-home spouse to access federal child care subsidies. The plan would create a new category called “parent-based child care.”
According to The Times, the draft proposal “creates the option for a new category of care, parent-based child care, that will allow one married parent to receive C.C.D.F. assistance to care for their own child, while a spouse works at least 35 hours per week.”
The report explained that the draft rule allows parents to benefit from a Health and Human Services Department fund that was established in the 1990s and offers about $9,000 per child each year. About 80% of the families currently using the subsidies are led by single working parents, many of them mothers.
Roger Severino of the Heritage Foundation, who was behind the child care section of Project 2025, told The Times, “It would be a welcome change to see equal treatment between commercial day care and the contribution stay-at-home parents provide in caring for and raising the next generation.”
“It doesn’t get more pro-family than that,” he said.
Earlier this year, Vice President JD Vance told pro-lifers during the March for Life rally that they have an “ally in the White House” and encouraged them to seek a “culture of life.”
“We are trying to argue to our fellow citizens that we must build up that culture of life. And as you know, that effort is going to take a lot of time, it’s going to take a lot of energy, and it’s going to take a little bit of money, and that’s why we’re here,” he said, adding that “we’re marching for life because we want our wonderful fellow Americans, even if they don’t disagree with us, to know that life is worthy. It is worthy of protection, and that is why we march today.”
“All of us in the Trump administration, from the president on down, we thank you for your prayers. We thank you for your perseverance, and today, we are all marching for life,” he said.
