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by philipallstar 405 days ago
> The current administration doesn't care about kids.

Of course they do. But untold amounts spent on very few kids could be spent elsewhere on many more. Federal budgets are a zero-sum game.

> Also, I think when they say they want more babies, they want a specific subset of babies to increase.

I've seen quite a few conservative commentators celebrate that the massively disproportionate levels of African-American abortion have been reduced, resulting in more African-American people being born, and zero bemoaning it. So maybe you're right.