The Trump administration is reportedly considering a controversial proposal to offer Americans $5,000 to encourage childbirth, a move that drew swift and sharp criticism from The View co-host Whoopi Goldberg.
During the Wednesday, April 23 episode of the daytime talk show, Goldberg didn’t hold back, calling the idea “insulting” and out of touch with the financial realities of having and raising children.
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“I am incredibly insulted by this, because they clearly 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,” Goldberg said.
The proposed policy, reportedly still in its early discussion stages, aims to boost the nation’s birth rate by offering a cash incentive. But Goldberg ridiculed the amount, arguing it barely makes a dent in actual childbirth expenses.
“$5,000? 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,” she said to The Wrap.
Fellow co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin, a former Trump administration aide, attempted to defend the idea, suggesting that “some money was better than no money.” But Goldberg quickly pushed back: “No, not in this case. No,” she replied.
Goldberg then broadened her criticism, highlighting funding cuts made during Trump’s time in office. “$1 billion in funding for schools and food banks, to buy food, was cut,” she said. “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!”
Her argument centered on the contradiction between encouraging more births and simultaneously cutting vital support for existing families. “If you want people to have children, you have to not scare them by cutting all these programs that they may need,” she stated.
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Goldberg closed the segment by doubling down on the impracticality of the proposal. “I am insulted by that amount, because you can’t even go to the hospital for $5,000 for goodness sakes,” she said, adding, “I don’t like the idea that somebody is saying I’m gonna pay you to have more kids.”
“My point is this administration seems to be telling people not to have [children],” Goldberg concluded. “Why not make sure that kids we already have, have a shot at good schooling?”
As debate over the policy heats up, critics like Goldberg argue that meaningful support for families must go beyond symbolic payments and start with addressing real needs already being neglected.
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