This plan says the best way to fix America's problems is to get more people married and having children. To do that, it would give tax breaks and new benefits to married couples — but take away help from single parents and families that don't fit the plan's definition of a "natural" family. It would also change how the government enforces civil rights.
The plan says the government should treat married straight couples better than same-sex couples. New benefits like savings accounts for babies and extra tax credits would only go to what the plan calls "natural marriages" — one man and one woman.
A same-sex married couple with two kids would not qualify for tens of thousands of dollars in new benefits that a straight married couple with two kids would get — even if both families earn the same income and raise their children the same way.
Many of the new benefits only go to married couples. But in the U.S., about 70% of Black children and 53% of Hispanic children are born to unmarried parents. That means these communities would be shut out of the biggest new benefits — and would also face cuts to existing help.
The plan also wants to get rid of a legal rule called "disparate impact" that has been one of the main tools for fighting racial discrimination in hiring since 1971.
If a company's hiring test screens out Black applicants at a much higher rate, they can be held accountable under current law. This plan would remove that protection. At the same time, communities with the lowest marriage rates — often communities of color — would get less federal money for roads, bridges, and transit.
The plan says the government should stop recognizing "gender identity" and only use biological sex in law. That means transgender people could lose workplace protections, healthcare coverage, and the ability to change their legal documents.
The plan creates financial rewards for families where only one parent works — which historically means the mother stays home. It calls the feminist movement destructive for encouraging women to "seek independence whatever the cost to their families." It also wants to change alimony laws to cut off payments faster after divorce.
A woman who left her career to raise children and then got divorced could lose alimony support more quickly. Meanwhile, new tax credits reward one-earner married households — creating financial pressure for one parent (usually the mother) to stop working.
The plan creates several new programs that only married couples can use:
A married couple with three kids could receive over $60,000 in new benefits over four years. An unmarried couple raising the same number of kids, with the same income, doing the same quality of parenting? They get nothing.
To pay for the new married-couple programs, the plan would cut benefits for single parents. It says a single mom making $20,000 a year who gets about $46,500 in combined help (food stamps, housing, healthcare, childcare) is getting "too much." It wants to put a cap on how much total help any family can get.
That $46,500 isn't extra spending money — it's what keeps her family fed, housed, and healthy. If you cap it, something has to go. Maybe it's the housing voucher. Maybe it's childcare. Either way, her kids feel it.
The Department of Transportation is already sending more money to communities with higher marriage and birth rates. That means cities — which tend to have lower marriage rates — would get less money for roads, bridges, buses, and transit. Rural and suburban areas with more married families would get more.
If you live in a city with a lot of single-parent families, your bus routes, road repairs, and infrastructure projects could get less federal funding — not because of how much tax you pay, but because of your neighborhood's marriage rate.
Benefits capped, work rules tightened, excluded from new programs
Excluded from "natural marriage" benefits, legal protections removed
Higher nonmarital birth rates mean less access to new benefits; infrastructure funding shifts away
Tax incentives push toward leaving jobs; alimony protections weakened
Federal transportation money shifts to suburbs and rural areas
New tax credits, savings accounts, infrastructure investment, childcare credits