该计划据称将从克林顿时期设立的一项120亿美元整笔拨款中提取资金，为全职育儿的父母每年每名儿童提供9000美元育儿补贴
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美国前进促进会经济学家、福利专家蕾切尔·格雷兹勒就这项可能面向全职育儿父母的计划发出警告。
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据报道，特朗普政府正在酝酿一项计划，允许部分有全职育儿父母的已婚家庭申领联邦育儿补贴——这项提议引发了保守派之间日益激烈的争执，争论华盛顿应在多大程度上支持家庭生活。
据报道，这项拟议中的计划将扩大儿童保育与发展基金（CCDF）的受助资格范围，覆盖部分已婚家庭：夫妻一方每周至少工作35小时，另一方则全职居家育儿，每名儿童的年度福利平均约为9000美元。
《纽约时报》9月5日报道称，拜登政府正在考虑这项提议，背景是副总统J·D·万斯长期倡导向全职育儿父母提供育儿援助，但一名白宫官员告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，万斯并未推动这项具体提案。
美国的育儿危机需要更多父母自主权，而非更多华盛顿管控
2025年11月13日，副总统J·D·万斯和第二夫人乌莎·万斯在白宫东厅出席唐纳德·特朗普总统签署关于寄养儿童与家庭的行政命令的活动。（索尔·勒布/法新社通过盖蒂图片社拍摄）
“在政府正式推出政策举措之前，任何关于尚未完全成型或未公开发布的潜在政策构想的泄密报道，都应被视为毫无意义的猜测。”这名官员说道。
儿童保育与发展整笔拨款法案于1990年由乔治·H·W·布什总统签署生效，1996年比尔·克林顿总统任期内的福利改革对该计划进行了修订，并将其与强制性育儿资金渠道整合，也就是如今通常所说的儿童保育与发展基金。
在母亲节前后发布的一份白宫新闻稿中，特朗普称赞其政府正在努力“更好地赋能全职育儿父母”。今年5月，美国卫生与公众服务部发布了新的儿童保育与发展基金指南，明确了各州在父母如何选择联邦认可的育儿提供者和服务方面的灵活性。
这项拟议中的计划的批评者包括一些共和党人和保守派倡导者，他们警告称，该计划可能会加强政府监督，并引发涉及欺诈、福利悬崖、依赖或工作激励等新问题。
前众议员玛乔丽·泰勒·格林在X平台的一则视频中也将该计划贴上了“社会主义”的标签，而保守派电台主持人埃里克·埃里克森在X平台上表示，该计划是“已婚人士的福利”，并声称这显示出共和党正转向“清淡版社会主义”的最新趋势。
特朗普面临反噬，共和党人士将5000美元承诺斥为“社会主义式的买票伎俩”
“我已经老到记得共和党人曾经反对政府福利项目的时代，”梅根·麦凯恩说道。
一些保守派人士和倡导者对这一构想表示支持，他们认为联邦政策应该为选择留在家中陪伴孩子的家庭提供更多支持。
美国原则项目主席特里·席林告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，多年来政府政策鼓励人们攻读多个本科和研究生学位，推迟了婚姻和购房，如今需要重新审视核心家庭模式。
“几十年来，华盛顿花钱让机构代为抚养孩子，而孤独的年轻人推迟了婚姻、购房和生育，”席林说道。“如果政策曾经破坏了家庭，那么政策也可以通过将资金交到父母手中，而非交到日托连锁机构、工会和非营利组织的口袋里，帮助家庭恢复到美国生活的中心位置。”
由前副总统迈克·彭斯创立的美国前进促进会（AAF）呼吁保守派反对这项据报道的计划。
美国前进促进会经济学家、福利专家蕾切尔·格雷兹勒在接受福克斯新闻数字频道采访时表示：“政府并非家庭生活的解决方案。”
“我担心如果我们跨过这条线，就会将原本以工作为导向的福利计划转变为社会工程，”她说道。
格雷兹勒担忧，向全职育儿父母发放政府补贴不可避免地需要设置防范欺诈和滥用行为的护栏——这可能会让政府对家庭生活进行更严格的审查。
特朗普的福利改革是重大胜利，但官僚机构仍可能将其破坏
2025年11月18日，前副总统迈克·彭斯在伦敦接受彭博电视台采访后。（何塞·萨门托·马托斯/彭博社通过盖蒂图片社拍摄）
“如果我们要向居家育儿的父母发放补贴，那么同时也会邀请政府进入你的家中，以确保你正在按照他们认为的正确方式使用育儿补贴，”格雷兹勒说道。
她警告称，即使保守派对共和党政府如何使用该计划感到放心，但如果白宫控制权易主，这种政府权力的扩张可能会带来意想不到的后果。
“我担心这将打开利用纳税人资金进行社会工程的大门。在另一届政府、另一次选举之后，这项政策可能会被用于与某些保守派当前期望的完全相反的目的，”格雷兹勒补充道。
受进步主义悲观主义影响，自由主义家庭的生育率低于保守主义家庭
据报道，这项计划将向夫妻一方每周至少工作35小时、另一方全职居家育儿的已婚家庭，每年每名儿童发放9000美元，用于支付“育儿父母的育儿费用”。（盖蒂图片社）
席林表示，美国人结婚和组建家庭的时间越早，国家就会越繁荣，这项计划将向选择家庭而非商业日托网络抚养孩子的已婚家庭提供支持。
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“传统福利项目通过中间商发放资金，往往还会加剧家庭破裂。这项提议遵循的原则与共和党医疗改革相同：与其将补贴发给保险公司，不如将资金直接交到家庭手中，”他说道。
席林表示，批评者将父母留在家中育儿称为“依赖”，但将官僚机构代为抚养孩子称为“投资”。
佛罗里达州共和党众议员安娜·保利娜·卢娜在X平台上分享了一篇关于该计划的文章，并写道：“全职育儿是一份全职工作，选择这样做的家庭应该获得相应的资源和奖励。”
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Leaked Trump plan sparks GOP showdown over how far Republicans should go to support families
Plan would allegedly pull from a $12B Clinton-era block grant to pay $9,000 per child per year for parent-based childcare
September 17, 2026 10:04am EDT / Fox News
By Ashley J. DiMella Fox News
Advancing American Freedom economist and welfare expert Rachel Greszler sounds alarm on possible stay-at-home parent program.
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The Trump administration is reportedly floating a plan to let some married families with a stay-at-home parent tap federal childcare dollars — a proposal that has triggered a growing fight among conservatives over how far Washington should go to support family life.
The reported proposal would expand eligibility for Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) assistance to some married families in which one spouse works at least 35 hours a week and the other stays home, with the benefit averaging about $9,000 per child annually, according to reports.
The New York Times reported Sept. 5 that the administration was considering the proposal in the context of Vice President JD Vance’s long-standing advocacy for extending childcare assistance to stay-at-home parents, although a White House official told Fox News Digital that Vance has not pushed this specific proposal.
AMERICA’S CHILD CARE CRISIS NEEDS MORE PARENTAL FREEDOM — NOT MORE WASHINGTON CONTROL
Vice President JD Vance and second lady Usha Vance arrive for President Donald Trump to sign an executive order on foster children and families in the East Room of the White House, Nov. 13, 2025.(Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)
“Until the administration officially unveils a policy push, any leaked reporting about potential policy ideas that have been neither fully baked nor released should be regarded as pointless speculation,” said the official.
The Child Care and Development Block Grant was enacted in 1990 under President George H.W. Bush, and the 1996 welfare overhaul under President Bill Clinton amended the program and integrated it with mandatory childcare funding streams that are now commonly known as the Child Care and Development Fund.
In a White House press release posted close to Mother’s Day, Trump touted how his administration is working to “better empower stay-at-home parents.” In May, the Department of Health and Human Services issued new CCDF guidance clarifying states’ flexibility in how parents can choose among federally permitted childcare providers and services.
Critics of the reported proposal, including some Republican and conservative advocates, have warned that it could increase government oversight and create new concerns involving fraud, benefit cliffs, dependency or incentives around work.
Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene also labeled the idea as “socialism” in an X video, while conservative radio host Erick Erickson said on X the plan is”welfare for married people,” and allegedly showed a recent pattern of the GOP pivoting toward “Diet Coke of Socialism.”
TRUMP FACES RECKONING AS GOP FIGURES LABEL $5K PROMISE A ‘SOCIALIST VOTE-BUYING SCHEME’
“I am old enough to remember a time when Republicans were against government entitlement programs,” said Meghan McCain.
Some conservative figures and advocates have expressed support for the concept, arguing that federal policy should provide greater support to families that choose to have a parent remain home with children.
American Principles Project President Terry Schilling told Fox News Digital that the nuclear family needs to be reconsidered after years of government policies promoting multiple undergraduate and graduate degrees while delaying marriage and homeownership.
“For decades, Washington paid institutions to raise kids while lonely young people delayed marriage, homeownership and children,” said Schilling. “If policy helped break the family, policy can help restore it to the center of American life by putting money in parents’ hands, not in the pockets of daycare chains, unions, and nonprofits.”
The Advancing American Freedom (AAF) organization, founded by former Vice President Mike Pence, urged conservatives to oppose the reported plan.
Rachel Greszler, AAF economist and welfare expert, told Fox News Digital in an interview that “government is not the solution to family life.”
“I fear that if we cross into that, that is taking what is supposed to be like a work-oriented welfare program and turning it into social engineering,” she said.
Greszler expressed concern that sending government checks to stay-at-home parents would inevitably require guardrails to prevent fraud and abuse — potentially bringing greater government scrutiny into the home.
TRUMP’S WELFARE REFORMS ARE A MAJOR VICTORY. BUREAUCRATS COULD STILL WRECK THEM
Former Vice President Mike Pence following a Bloomberg Television interview in London, on Nov. 18, 2025.(Jose Sarmento Matos/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“If we are going to invite checks for parents who are staying home with their children, you are also going to be inviting the government into your home to make sure that you are doing what they think you should be doing with a stay-at-home parent check,” said Greszler.
She warned that even if conservatives are comfortable with how a Republican administration uses the program, establishing that government power could have unintended consequences if control of the White House changes hands.
“I worry that this would open the door into using taxpayer funds for social engineering. That in a different administration after another election could be used for the exact opposite intent of what certain conservatives are looking for right now to use it,” Greszler added.
DRIVEN BY PROGRESSIVE DOOMISM, LIBERALS ARE HAVING FEWER BABIES THAN CONSERVATIVE FAMILIES
The proposal would reportedly disburse $9,000 per child, per year to pay “parent-based childcare” for married couples where one spouse works at least 35 hours a week and the other stays home.(Getty Images)
Schilling said the earlier Americans marry and start families, the more prosperous the country will be, and this program will give support to married families over commercial daycare networks to raise children.
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“Traditional welfare routes money through middlemen and too often subsidized family breakdown. This proposal works on the same principle as Republican healthcare reforms: instead of sending subsidies to insurance companies, put the money directly in the hands of families,” he said.
Schilling says critics call it dependency when a parent stays home, but call it “investment” when a bureaucracy does it.
Florida GOP Rep. Anna Paulina Luna shared an article on the plan and wrote, “Being a stay-at-home parent is a full-time job and there should be resources and reward available to families that do this.”
Fox News Digital reached out to the office of the vice president and the White House for comment.
Ashley J. DiMella reports on politics for Fox News Digital.