Four people who have been privy to some of these White House discussions say the Trump administration has been on the receiving end of multiple proposed policies to encourage Americans to get married and have more children.
Policy experts and advocates aiming to increase the United States’ birthrate have been engaging with White House aides, presenting written proposals designed to encourage women to have more children, the Time article added, citing four people who have been part of the meetings.
Last year’s report on declining birth rates continued to display the pattern that has been seen over the past several years, with birth rates declining by an average of two percent per year from 2015 to 2020, according to data from the National Center for Health Statistics’ “Births: Provisional Data for 2023.”
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6h ago — Intelligence community hiding, erasing history Just the News published a story this week revealing that a confidential human source told FBI counter-intelligence in the summer of 2020 that China’s communist government was seeking to meddle in the impending election to help then-candidate Joe Biden, according to a raw intelligence report distributed to federal agencies that was reviewed and made public by Just the News. The raw and unverified intelligence report was bluntly titled “Chinese Government Production and Export of Fraudulent US Driver's Licenses to Chinese Sympathizers in the United States, in Order to Create Tens of Thousands of Fraudulent Mail-in Votes for US Presidential Candidate Joe Biden, in late August 2020.” This report was soon recalled, with spy agencies told to delete the information before they had a chance to properly investigate its claims.