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    “The View ”viewers gasps as cohost asks ‘is not one thing higher than nothing?’ over Trump’s $5,000 ‘child bonus’

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    • The View cohosts reacted to Donald Trump's potential plan to extend birthrates.
    • Conservative star Alyssa Farah Griffin requested, "Isn't one thing higher than nothing?"
    • The present's studio viewers audibly jeered over the previous Trump affiliate's phrases.

    The View cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin's evaluation of former boss Donald Trump's potential plan to boost the American beginning charge elicited an audible gasp from the discuss present's dwell studio viewers.

    The second (watch within the video above) got here throughout a Scorching Subjects dialogue Wednesday morning, after moderator Whoopi Goldberg harshly criticized the administration's attainable coverage that might reportedly provide "a $5,000 money 'child bonus' to each American mom after supply," per the New York Times.

    "I’m extremely insulted by this, as a result of, clearly, they don't understand how ladies's our bodies work, and so they don't know what it prices to boost a baby or simply have a baby," the 69-year-old EGOT-winning actress mentioned, earlier than stating child-specific applications that the administration has reduce. "That $5,000? I don't know what $5,000 is meant to do."

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    Panelist Sara Haines highlighted that there's a "deeper drawback" to handle, in that "we don't have paid household depart on this nation or sponsored childcare" — each issues she felt ought to be addressed earlier than giving individuals $5,000 to have one other youngster.

    She additionally cited analysis that put a "conservative estimate" for cash required to boost a baby at $16,000.

    "I'm a type of those who I really feel the earth is overpopulated. They need extra infants as a result of it impacts not solely the workforce, however paying into entitlement applications," she mentioned, estimating that synthetic intelligence is an even bigger drawback in that regard, as a result of she thinks it should "bankrupt social companies" in the long term.

    Whoopi Goldberg and Alyssa Farah Griffin on 'The View'
    Whoopi Goldberg and Alyssa Farah Griffin on 'The View'.

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    Goldberg closed out the dialog by once more lamenting "issues that this administration has slashed," which she mentioned made her really feel "insulted by that amount of cash" probably supplied to new dad and mom.

    "$5,000 feels like some huge cash, however when you can't pay your lease, when you can't pay in your after-school applications in your youngsters…" Goldberg mentioned, earlier than Griffin requested, "However, isn't one thing higher than nothing, I suppose?"

    The viewers audibly gasped on the 35-year-old's evaluation, earlier than she added, "I really feel like if [Joe] Biden proposed this, we'd all be saying it's groundbreaking."

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    Donald Trump attends the White Home Easter Egg Roll on Monday, April 21, 2025.

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    Goldberg shortly shut Griffin down, once more stating that there have been current cuts to applications meant to curb on-line abuse in addition to for faculties and meals banks throughout the nation.

    "I don't like the concept that someone is saying I'm going to pay you to have extra youngsters," Goldberg mentioned, later explaining, "If you would like individuals to have youngsters, it’s important to not scare them by chopping all these applications that they could want."

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    The View airs weekdays at 11 a.m. ET/10 a.m. PT on ABC. Watch the viewers gasp over Griffin's remark within the video on the prime of this publish.

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