Good morning! Female U.S. soldiers must now pass a "sex-neutral" physical test, L.A. mayor Karen Bass proposes government workforce layoffs, and the Trump administration may incentivize women to have more babies.
- Baby boom. The Trump administration has been soliciting ideas for ways to entice Americans to have more children, according to a report in the New York Times, in an effort to combat what it sees as a crisis of falling birth rates in the U.S. Some of the proposals reportedly being floated: a $5,000 cash "baby bonus," government-funded educational programs on menstrual cycles, and a "National Medal of Motherhood" awarded to mothers with six or more children.
The idea generation is the clearest example yet of the Trump administration's embrace of "a new cultural agenda pushed by many of its allies on the right to reverse declining birthrates and push conservative family values," the Times reports.
