MAGA couples are embracing Donald Trump’s ‘baby boom’ and announcing their pregnancies as the White House works to encourage more Americans to have children.
The Trump Administration has been weighing ideas to motivate Americans to have more babies as the country faces a plummeting fertility rate.
His supporters have embraced his efforts and dubbed his presidency the ‘Trump baby boom,’ as they announce their pregnancies.
Thomas and Natalie Sauer recently revealed on X that they are expecting their first child with the mother-to-be excited to be a part of the ‘Trump baby boom.’
‘This October, Natalie and I will celebrate a new addition to the Sauer family! Glory to God and his countless blessings,’ Thomas said.
Re-sharing her husband’s post of the couple and their sonogram, Natalie said, ‘Glad to get this off my chest, now I can finally tweet about being pregnant like every other girl on here during the Trump baby boom.’
Thomas, 44, is an 18-year Navy and Marine Corps Veteran and the founder of Miramar Health, which provides mental health services for veterans.
Natalie, 27, is a graduate student at Concordia University Irvine. The couple are proud MAGA supporters, and posted a picture with JD Vance and RFK Jr. after Trump’s landslide 2024 election victory.
‘US patriots in control and dudes rock,’ Natalie captioned the post.
The couple was flooded with replies of people congratulating them and supporting their decision to have a baby while Trump is in office.
‘Trump baby boom! Love it. Congrats,’ one person said. ‘Congratulations! There is nothing better. Best job in the world,’ said another.
‘Congrats you two. Nothing greater than the role of mother and father,’ a third person said. ‘Eep! congratulations – we love to see a growing family,’ said a fourth.
The White House has been hearing a plethora of proposals on measures to reverse declining birthrates, reported the New York Times.
One proposal would reserve 30 percent of scholarships for the prestigious Fulbright fellowship for applicants who are married or have children.
Another would give a $5,000 cash ‘baby bonus’ to every American mother after delivery, the outlet reported.
A third calls for government funded programs to educate women on their menstrual cycles so they can better understand when they are ovulating and able to conceive.
Trump, who referred to himself as the ‘father of fertilization’ on the campaign trial, signed an executive order that seeks to make in-vitro fertilization more accessible in February.
The EO tasks the assistant to the President for Domestic Policy with looking into recommendations on how to make IVF ‘drastically more affordable.’
His press secretary Karoline Leavitt said that the order will ‘aggressively’ reduce out-of-pocket costs for the procedure that costs generally costs between $12,000 to $25,000 per cycle, according to the text of the order.
The fertility rate in the US has plunged to another new low, with fewer women than at any point in history having children.
The rate was 54.5 births per 1,000 women of childbearing age (15 to 44 years old) last year, a three percent fall compared to 56 in 2022.
The number of babies born in the US also declined year-over-year, with just under 3.6million live births in 2023.
Experts say the US is headed for a so-called ‘underpopulation crisis’ by 2050, when too few people are born to support its current economic system.
The most recent CDC data showed in 2023, the total fertility rate fell to 1.62 births per woman, the lowest since the government began tracking the metric in the 1930s.
However, for a population to stay the same size, it must achieve a ‘replacement’ level fertility rate of 2.1 – a number the US hasn’t recorded since 2007, before the 2008 financial crash.
If unaddressed over time, it can lead to an increasing aging population, with a significant proportion needing care and unable to work.