Hamza Adam 
Nearly all of the co-hosts of “The View” took issue with President Donald Trump’s idea to encourage birth rates in the United States by offering families $5,000 upon birth.
The baby checks aren’t the only idea; another suggestion from White House advisers is a program that explains the menstrual cycle to women. They think this might be necessary “in part so [women] can better understand when they are ovulating and able to conceive,” the New York Times report said.
Reports indicate that birth rates in the United States continue to decline.
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“I am incredibly insulted by this because clearly they don’t know how women’s bodies work, and they don’t know what it costs to raise a child or just have a child,” Whoopi Goldberg said to audience applause. She specifically questioned the amount. “I don’t know what $5,000 is supposed to do, and it’s not even $5,000 because you have to cut it in half because you have to pay taxes on it. So they’re offering you $2,500 to have a baby.”
Former White House communications director Alyssa Farah Griffin said that she supported the idea because any amount helps when families have children. However, she doesn’t want it to be available only for traditional male-female couples.
“This should apply to gay couples, not just to women who have children, and adoptive parents,” she said.
She cited the “child tax credit, which provides a tax credit for the number of children you have, and the earned income tax credit” as other ways the government has pledged to help.
Goldberg disagreed with the amount, saying that $5,000 sounds like a lot, “but if you can’t pay your rent, if you can’t pay for your after-school programs for your kids…”
That’s when Griffin argued that something is better than nothing. Goldberg said that it isn’t in this case, because slashed pro-children government programs are worth far more.
“Let me just tell you this, $1 billion in funding for schools and food banks to buy food was cut,” continued Goldberg. “Withdrew funding for investigating child sexual abuse and internet crimes against children: cut. Fired the entire staff running a program to help low-income households pay their heating and cooling bills. Now, these families already exist.”
Sunny Hostin mentioned Head Start programs, which Goldberg said haven’t yet been cut but are being threatened.
“My point is, it seems to me that everything this administration seems to be doing is telling people not to have children. Why not make sure that the kids that we already have have a shot at good schooling? Why not?” she asked. “You want people to have children, you have to not scare them by cutting all these programs that they may need.”
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