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If You Think Ending Discrimination Against Stay-At-Home Moms Is ‘Welfare,’ You’re Not Conservative

Current childcare subsidies don’t simply pose a threat to the security and stability offered by married parents, they encourage the opposite.

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Family and children are and have always been the cornerstone of conservatism. The moment the New York Times publicized the Trump team’s plan to make stay at home mothers eligible for childcare payments, however, another GOP feud was born.

The lines were immediately clear. The same folks that find any excuse to complain about Vice President J.D. Vance as the face of the “woke right” are taking aim at a proposal that would make certain single income households helmed by married parents eligible for childcare subsidies typically handed to daycares.

The current eligibility structure of the 30-year-old Child Care and Development Fund program is flawed and, like most welfare programs, susceptible to exploitation by fraudsters and moochers. The $12 billion in taxes the daycare program spends on subsidizing unmarried working mothers incentivizes out of wedlock births and outsourcing parenting duties, both inherently anti-conservative behaviors.

The existing tax code heavily subsidizes single motherhood to the point that single moms who get married lose state support. In other words current law disincentives a social good (marriage) among welfare recipients. Oh no a socialism we should have been fixing for decades. https://t.co/HKHtC7MCVK— Rachel Bovard (@rachelbovard) September 6, 2026

The existing tax code heavily subsidizes single motherhood to the point that single moms who get married lose state support. In other words current law disincentives a social good (marriage) among welfare recipients. Oh no a socialism we should have been fixing for decades. https://t.co/HKHtC7MCVK

Under the Trump administration’s proposal, “parent-based child care” in a home supported by a spouse who “works at least 35 hours per week” and meets the same income qualifications as current recipients would be recognized as a legitimate cause worthy of tax dollars.

The proposed reform, which can’t be implemented without a comment period and until at least next year, does not expand the CCDF or demand more taxation. It simply redirects already-allocated funds, which........

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