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The quest to ‘make America fertile again’ stalls under Trump
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US President Donald Trump’s plans for combating infertility have largely stalled out.
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Caroline Kitchener
WASHINGTON – US Vice-President J.D. Vance last week called falling marriage rates “a big problem”. The deputy secretary of Health and Human Services in December urged his agency to “make America fertile again”. And at a recent conference for young conservatives, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy doubled down on the importance of marriage and children, holding out his nine kids as a model for others to follow.
But one year into US President Donald Trump’s second term, his administration has enacted few policies to reduce the rising cost of having children – frustrating some conservatives who expected Mr Trump to prioritise their plans to boost the US birth rate as it continues to drop.
