“The View ”audience gasps as cohost asks 'isn't something better than nothing?' over Trump's $5,000 'baby bonus'

Key Points

• The View cohosts reacted to Donald Trump's imaginable program to summation birthrates.

• Conservative prima Alyssa Farah Griffin asked, "Isn't thing amended than nothing?"

• The show's workplace assemblage audibly jeered implicit the erstwhile Trump associate's words.

The View cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin's appraisal of erstwhile brag Donald Trump's imaginable program to rise the American commencement complaint elicited an audible gasp from the speech show's unrecorded workplace audience.

The infinitesimal (watch successful the video above) came during a Hot Topics treatment Wednesday morning, aft moderator Whoopi Goldberg harshly criticized the administration's imaginable argumentation that would reportedly connection "a $5,000 currency 'baby bonus' to each American parent aft delivery," per the New York Times.

"I americium incredibly insulted by this, because, clearly, they don't cognize however women's bodies work, and they don't cognize what it costs to rise a kid oregon conscionable person a child," the 69-year-old EGOT-winning histrion said, earlier pointing retired child-specific programs that the medication has cut. "That $5,000? I don't cognize what $5,000 is expected to do."

Panelist Sara Haines highlighted that there's a "deeper problem" to address, successful that "we don't person paid household permission successful this state oregon subsidized childcare" — some things she felt should beryllium addressed earlier giving radical $5,000 to person different child.

She besides cited probe that enactment a "conservative estimate" for wealth required to rise a kid astatine $16,000.

"I'm 1 of those radical that I consciousness the world is overpopulated. They privation much babies due to the fact that it affects not lone the workforce, but paying into entitlement programs," she said, estimating that artificial quality is simply a bigger occupation successful that regard, due to the fact that she thinks it volition "bankrupt societal services" successful the agelong run.

Goldberg closed retired the speech by again lamenting "things that this medication has slashed," which she said made her consciousness "insulted by that magnitude of money" perchance offered to caller parents.

"$5,000 sounds similar a batch of money, but if you can't wage your rent, if you can't wage for your after-school programs for your kids..." Goldberg said, earlier Griffin asked, "But, isn't thing amended than nothing, I guess?"

The assemblage audibly gasped astatine the 35-year-old's assessment, earlier she added, "I consciousness similar if [Joe] Biden projected this, we'd each beryllium saying it's groundbreaking."

Goldberg rapidly unopen Griffin down, again pointing retired that determination person been caller cuts to programs intended to curb online maltreatment arsenic good arsenic for schools and nutrient banks crossed the country.

"I don't similar the thought that idiosyncratic is saying I'm going to wage you to person much kids," Goldberg said, aboriginal explaining, "If you privation radical to person children, you person to not scare them by cutting each these programs that they whitethorn need."

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The View airs weekdays astatine 11 a.m. ET/10 a.m. PT on ABC. Watch the assemblage gasp implicit Griffin's remark successful the video astatine the apical of this post.

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