The Heritage Foundation,
author of the Project 2025 roadmap guiding the second Trump administration’s legislative agenda,
has a new policy platform chock-full of ideas that could steer mothers out of the paid workforce.
In January, the right-wing organization released a 168-page report called
“Saving America by Saving the Family: A Foundation for the Next 250 Years,”
which suggests that U.S. women have gotten a raw deal thanks in large part to contemporary feminists who, the group argues,
treat “marriage and motherhood as traps created by men, not gifts by God.”
Social benefits programs are also blamed for incentivizing “unwed childbearing” and making it possible for families to raise children without a male breadwinner.
Heritage’s solution?
Entice people into early marriages through a variety of individual policy prescriptions:
making college financial aid less available;
gutting social welfare programs,
including the subsidized child care, that families rely on;
and providing limited material benefits to those who procreate early and often.







