The proposed benefit, a top policy priority for Vice President JD Vance, would apply only to married couples and tap a fund intended to provide federal child care subsidies to working parents.
Trump Officials Draft Plan to Pay At-Home Parents, Using Funds for Working Ones
About 80 percent of the 870,000 families that currently get child care subsidies from the Health and Human Services Department have single working parents, most of them mothers, according to department data. Julia Nikhinson/Associated Press