Trump’s $5,000 ‘baby bonus’ will never work

Donald Trump’s plan to give women $5,000 to have children is a “symbolic gesture” which will fail to curb the United States’ crumbling birth rate, experts have warned.

The push for more babies comes amid decades of falling birth rates. The total fertility rate in 2023 was just 1.62 births per woman, well below the 2.1 required to keep the population even.