Sen. Mitt Romney proposes to send monthly cash to families — permanently

Sen. Mitt Romney unveiled a plan Thursday to send American families $350 a month for each young child and $250 for each school-age child on an ongoing basis.

The Family Security Act aims to streamline existing federal family policies to create one universal child benefit. The legislation would consolidate many complicated programs to create a monthly cash payment for families without adding to the deficit, according to Romney, R-Utah.

“American families are facing greater financial strain, worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic, and marriage and birth rates are at an all-time low,” Romney said in a statement.

“On top of that, we have not comprehensively reformed our family support system in nearly three decades, and our changing economy has left millions of families behind,” he said. “Now is the time to renew our commitment to families to help them meet the challenges they face as they take on (the) most important work any of us will ever do — raising our society’s children.”