$5,000 Baby Bonus Could Be Paid to Americans as Population Crisis Grows
Crossroads with Joshua Philipp
The Epoch Times
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🗓️ 24 April 2025
⏱️ 67 minutes
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The Trump administration is reportedly considering a “baby bonus.” This would be a $5,000 bonus to mothers in a bid to increase birth rates. The plan comes amid dwindling birth rates in most developed countries, which is considered a long-term threat to the future of the United States.
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| 0:00.0 | The Trump administration is allegedly considering a baby bonus. |
| 0:04.4 | This would pay a $5,000 bonus to mothers and a bid to increase birth rates. |
| 0:10.2 | In other news, a new campaign within the U.S. government is aiming to eradicate anti-Christian bias. |
| 0:16.8 | A task force on this was established by Trump under an executive order back in February, |
| 0:22.4 | and now the campaign to carry this directive out has officially started. |
| 0:27.3 | And meanwhile, HHS Secretary RFK Jr. in conjunction with the FDA has now officially begun his |
| 0:33.7 | promised ban on food dyes. This will be a campaign to phase them out of American food |
| 0:39.3 | products and medications due to their negative health effects. I'm the Epic Times Senior |
| 0:44.3 | Investigator reporter Joshua Phillip and you're listening to Crossroads. |
| 1:00.0 | The Trump administration, they are allegedly planning a baby bonus. And what this would do is effectively pay a $5,000 bonus to mothers. This is in a bid to increase birth rates. And the |
| 1:07.4 | plan comes amid, well, dwindling birth rates in most of the developed world. |
| 1:13.1 | And it's also framed as a long-term threat to the future of the United States, by the way. |
| 1:17.3 | And also now there are a few different proposals going through on this. Discussions, really |
| 1:22.8 | there's nothing solid quite yet, but we can't get an idea of what they're planning. Newsweek said this. |
| 1:28.9 | It said when contacted by Newsweek for comment, the White House said President Trump is proudly |
| 1:34.8 | implementing policies to uplift American families. In other words, they didn't really confirm or |
| 1:40.3 | deny anything, but we're going to uplift the family. And they say further in that policy |
| 1:44.5 | experts and advocates have come up with proposals that include reserving 30% of scholarships |
| 1:51.0 | for the Fulbright Program International Fellowship for those who are married or have children. Another |
| 1:56.5 | idea would be to give a $5,000 cash, not even credit, cash, baby bonus to every woman after they have given birth. |
| 2:06.5 | And it says a third policy calls on the government to fund educational programs for women about their menstrual cycles so they can better understand when they're ovulating and able to conceive. |
| 2:17.4 | Not just in other words, |
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