The group behind Project 2025 wants a ‘Manhattan Project’ for more babies
By Jacob Bogage,
The Washington Post
| 09. 03. 2025
The conservative group behind the Project 2025 governing playbook for President Donald Trump’s second term is set to propose sweeping revisions to U.S. economic policy meant to encourage married heterosexual couples to have more children.
The Heritage Foundation, a right-wing think tank headquartered a stone’s throw from the U.S. Capitol, wants lawmakers to create new government-seeded savings accounts — for married people only.
It hopes to steer funding for child care away from programs like Head Start and toward individual families — specifically to encourage parents to stay home and rear children.
And the group wants Trump to issue executive orders requiring all proposed policies and regulations to “measure their positive or negative impacts on marriage and family” — then overhaul or end programs that score poorly.
Those ideas are part of a five-page executive summary of a forthcoming Heritage position paper titled “We Must Save the American Family.” It calls for a “Manhattan Project to restore the nuclear family” and induce couples to have more babies. A copy of the summary was obtained by The Washington Post.
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