All posts tagged "Leigh Ann Caldwell"

A conservative critic branded the Trump administration's proposed incentives to encourage Americans to have more babies as something out of a Soviet-era Eastern Bloc country.

On CNN's Inside Politics Tuesday, Dana Bash cited a New York Times article about the administration's ideas to bolster the birthrate, that include $5,000 bonuses to new mothers, menstrual education programs, and a "Medal of Motherhood" for parents with six or more children.

"My view on this, has been that surveys for decades have shown that Americans would like to have more kids than they end up having," said The Washington Post's Ramesh Ponnuru. "And, so, the the thing that we need to be looking at as policymakers or people who are interested in this, is, how do we remove the obstacles that are keeping people from achieving their goals for their families, not trying to change their minds or socially engineer an outcome for them, which starts to look, frankly, weird and creepy." ...

CNN's Inside Politics' panel slammed Donald Trump's Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick Thursday for blatantly promoting Tesla stock in an effort to help owner Elon Musk.

Tesla has seen its stocks slump since Musk's affiliation with President Donald Trump and stewardship of the vastly unpopular Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), that has slashed whole departments and thousands of government jobs. Well-publicized recalls of Tesla vehicles, including Cybertrucks that had their parts fall off, have not helped the situation.

According to Business Insider, Tesla shares have "plummeted 53% from record highs reached in mid-December."...