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Episode 97

Conservatives Are At War Over VP Vance's Stay-At-Home Parent Subsidy

September 17th, 2026

26 mins 21 secs

Season 2

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About this Episode

The Trump administration wants to pay married stay-at-home parents $9,000 a year per child. JD Vance is pushing it, and conservatives are split.

In this episode, I get into where that $9,000 actually comes from (a fund that's existed since the Clinton years, not a new one), who would actually qualify for it, and why this has turned into a real fight on the right. Kevin Roberts, Michael Knowles, and Benny Johnson say it finally stops penalizing families for having one parent stay home. Mark Levin, Dana Loesch, and James Lindsay say it's still welfare, whatever you call it.

I started out firmly against this. I land somewhere more complicated than that by the end, and I tell you exactly why.