GOP senators launch new push to back mothers with MOMS Act

EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Katie Britt, R-Ala., volition enactment guardant the MOMS (More Opportunities for Mothers to Succeed) Act connected Tuesday, aiming to supply captious enactment to America’s mothers, some prenatal and post-partum, arsenic Mother's Day arrives Sunday.

Britt said the fig of births successful the U.S. successful 2023 was the lowest since the Carter administration, citing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

"The Republican Party is the enactment of life, the enactment of parents, and the enactment of families," she added to Fox News Digital.

"At the bosom of the MOMS Act is gathering a broad civilization of beingness to springiness moms, children and families the enactment strategy they request to thrive and unrecorded their American Dream."

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"As a ma myself, I don’t person to wonderment what different moms are facing – I’m surviving it. I cognize firsthand that determination is nary greater blessing successful beingness than our children and I besides recognize the types of challenges that women look during their gestation journeys and portion raising their kids. I’m arrogant to enactment women passim these seasons of motherhood, and the MOMS Act is portion of my continued committedness to combat connected their behalf.

Britt is joined connected the measure by Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., and respective dads arsenic well, including Sens. Jim Justice, R-W.Va., Steve Daines, R-Mont., Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., David McCormick, R-Pa., Charles Grassley, R-Iowa and others.

McCormick told Fox News Digital helium was arrogant to articulation specified a "pro-family effort," portion informing that the U.S. commencement and fertility rates person been "alarmingly low" for immoderate time.

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A Mother's Day card. (iStock)

"I’m arrogant to articulation [my] colleagues successful this pro-family effort to assistance guarantee caller and expecting mothers tin access the resources they request for the semipermanent wellness and well-being of themselves and their children," helium said.

The MOMS Act would found a caller "pregnancy-dot-gov" for expectant and post-partum mothers arsenic good arsenic those with young children, successful bid to summation entree to adoption agencies, gestation assets centers and different assistance by ZIP code.

For states similar Alabama, wherever agrarian communities are particularly successful request of specified support, it would found a assistance programme that would assistance assuage the much than 20 counties successful the Yellowhammer State unsocial that are considered "maternity attraction deserts."

Britt’s past effort astatine putting guardant MOMS Act authorities was blocked by Democrats whom she said had erroneously characterized the measure arsenic creating a national gestation database, among different "outlandish" claims.

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The 2025 mentation besides includes Cramer’s Unborn Child Support Act to let authorities governments to use kid enactment obligations during gestation.

While nary Democrats person yet travel retired successful nationalist support, Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine precocious co-sponsored the Child Care Availability and Affordability Act with Britt to fortify taxation credits aimed astatine lowering the outgo of time attraction and the like.