Hey everyone, you're listening to Code Switch from NPR. I'm B.A. Parker. And I'm here with our beloved senior editor, Leah Donello. What's good, Leah? Hi, Parker. All right, so talk to me.

Okay. Well, Parker, you know this, but our audience may not. Um, as we speak, I am

nine months pregnant with my second kid. She's due like really any, any moment now.

Leah is, uh, like, she's very pregnant. She is like, she's like, the baby's fully cooked and we're just chilling we're just

waiting she's she's biding her time yes yes um yeah and you know something you may not know is that

when my husband and i were debating whether to have a second kid. I said to him,

honey, we've got an expanded child tax credit.

We've got the Trump accounts.

We've got to take advantage of this stuff.

And he was like, bad.

You?

You said that?

Oh my gosh.

I'm so sorry.

No, I got confused, Mommy Brain.

No, that was not me. That was actually the logic of Vice President J.D. Vance.

And when Ush and I were having the debate about whether we were going to have a fourth kid, I said, honey, we've got an expanded child tax credit and we've got the Trump accounts. We've got to take advantage of this stuff.

I love the idea of having a baby because of a coupon.

Yeah, exactly.

It's such a good deal.

That was a clip from his speech, by the way, at the March for Life in January of this year.

My reasons for wanting another kid were just so that in 30 years the U.S. economy doesn't tank.

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