The Auron MacIntyre Show - September 10, 2026


Child Care Crashout Reveals the GOP Has a Loser Mentality ｜ 9⧸10⧸26


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00:00:00.000 It was recently revealed that the Trump administration is drafting a proposal, championed by Vice President J.D. Vance,
00:00:05.660 that would alter how the government distributes funds already earmarked for child care.
00:00:10.240 The new plan would take roughly $12 billion allocated to help working parents pay for commercial child care
00:00:16.560 and also make it available to mothers who want to stay home and raise their own children. 0.78
00:00:21.680 After Vance spent the last several months exposing disastrous levels of fraud in the child care system being exploited by ethnic cartels, 0.79
00:00:28.960 cartels, it made perfect sense that the administration would adjust the program.
00:00:33.540 Instead of cheering this accomplishment, many establishment conservative figures
00:00:37.620 attacked both the program and Vance with charges of socialism. The incident serves as a good
00:00:44.040 reminder that the battle for the future of the GOP sits under the surface of every debate the
00:00:48.760 right is currently having, and that cheap ideological slogans still dominate the conservative
00:00:53.920 mind. The Child Care and Development Fund was created in the 1990s to provide low-income parents
00:01:00.560 with assistance to pay for daycare while they go to work. The program, as it currently exists,
00:01:06.000 only distributes its $12 billion to low-income mothers if they leave their children to go to
00:01:11.000 work. That means a larger percentage of the funding is likely going to single mothers and 0.87
00:01:15.960 dedicated voters for the Democratic Party. Vance's proposal would not add any additional funding to
00:01:21.580 the program, but it would make the same pool of money available to married stay-at-home mothers 0.81
00:01:26.960 who prefer raising their own children to sitting in a cubicle. In response, conservative commentators
00:01:32.460 like Meghan McCain and Dana Loesch went on social media tirades about the program being socialist
00:01:38.620 and J.D. Vance representing big government conservatism. For most of history, being a
00:01:44.440 widow or a divorcee with a child was a terrible situation, one to be avoided at all costs.
00:01:50.980 Widespread state police didn't exist,
00:01:53.480 so women were entirely dependent on the men in their lives to protect them from danger. 0.99
00:01:58.580 Women also had a difficult time earning a living, 0.71
00:02:01.260 not just due to cultural attitudes around females in the workplace, 1.00
00:02:04.560 though those definitely existed, 0.99
00:02:06.220 but because the biological realities of menstruation and pregnancy
00:02:09.740 in a world before modern medicine
00:02:11.420 made it hard for them to reliably maintain a career outside the home.
00:02:15.020 It was common practice in many cultures, including Western cultures,
00:02:18.480 for a single man to marry his brother's widow should he pass away so she and the children would
00:02:24.540 not be destitute. No matter how you feel about the fact that women are highly dependent on men,
00:02:29.760 it is the natural order. Progressive feminists hated the natural order and set out to alter it 1.00
00:02:35.420 with the power of the state. The United States has spent hundreds of billions of dollars to 1.00
00:02:39.900 rearrange the social order so that single mothers could be subsidized and protected by the state. 1.00
00:02:45.860 Feminists didn't want women dependent on men, especially not men and their families, 1.00
00:02:50.000 so they made it possible for mothers to marry the state instead. 1.00
00:02:53.660 From welfare to college admissions to the job market, 0.51
00:02:56.500 our government has created incentives that artificially elevate women over men
00:03:00.500 so that females wouldn't be reliant on those men.
00:03:04.200 While it would be best if the vast network of legal and financial incentives were dismantled, 0.92
00:03:09.360 that simply isn't going to happen.
00:03:11.280 In a democracy where even the most basic issues are divisive
00:03:14.420 and the legislative branch is functionally paralyzed,
00:03:17.280 there is no chance that a proposal to strip low-income mothers of their benefits will pass.
00:03:22.640 The question is not, should the program exist?
00:03:25.300 It shouldn't.
00:03:26.200 The question is, since the political reality is that the program will continue to exist,
00:03:30.780 where should the money go?
00:03:32.520 The screeching from conservative commentators over the redirection of $12 billion
00:03:37.100 would be bizarre if the motivations weren't so transparent.
00:03:41.120 Since 2022, the U.S. has spent just shy of $200 billion to fund the war in Ukraine.
00:03:47.200 That includes money to pay for the retirement pensions of their government bureaucrats.
00:03:52.080 America borrows $4 billion a year to give to Israel,
00:03:56.120 and that doesn't even begin to count the tens of billions of dollars we just spent
00:04:01.060 to fight a war in Iran on Israel's behest.
00:04:04.740 Why does redirecting existing funding to full-time mothers count as socialism
00:04:08.840 but endless aid to foreign nations doesn't.
00:04:11.860 That question is just never answered.
00:04:14.340 Florida provides a great example of why something like this already works.
00:04:18.340 In Florida, the state legislature passed a bill that allows school funding to follow the student instead of the institution.
00:04:24.940 Lawmakers knew that for a whole host of statutory reasons and political realities,
00:04:29.580 they weren't going to stop the collection of taxes for public schools.
00:04:32.700 So instead, they ensured that the money could also go to schooling alternatives.
00:04:36.780 If families decide to homeschool or send their children to private school, the taxes they already paid would be redirected to those efforts instead of funding the public school the family wasn't using.
00:04:48.580 The legislators would have likely preferred to eliminate the tax altogether, but that was not political reality, so they decided the perfect shouldn't be the enemy of the good.
00:04:59.140 The cheap slogans about Vance's proposal repeated by conservative commentators
00:05:03.080 reveals how a large percentage of the movement is still dedicated to rigid ideology
00:05:07.360 instead of winning victories that actually improve the lives of Americans and grant the right more power.
00:05:12.940 I mean, Meghan McCain is out there talking about the dangers of government spending
00:05:16.820 when her father used his vote in the Senate to protect Obamacare while supporting every war on the planet.
00:05:23.660 Dana Loesch is suggesting that a GOP Congress which won't pass one of the most popular bills
00:05:28.940 in human history, the SAVE Act, that they're going to magically eliminate the program and
00:05:33.660 cut the taxes that fund it instead.
00:05:36.460 Loesch knows perfectly well that this is just not going to happen, but she prefers that 1.00
00:05:40.800 the state subsidize mothers who pay someone else to take care of their children than mothers 0.99
00:05:45.380 who would raise their children themselves.
00:05:48.180 This is the ugliest part of the entire disagreement over Vance's proposal.
00:05:52.340 By subsidizing only working mothers, the GOP is actively driving women out of their households and into the workplace.
00:05:59.460 Full-time mothers generate enormous amounts of social capital, but not income. 0.79
00:06:04.500 And social capital doesn't make the line go up on the GDP chart. 0.95
00:06:08.560 The most basic law of economics is you get more of what you subsidize. 0.65
00:06:13.160 and the establishment conservatives want to incentivize women to leave their children 0.97
00:06:18.100 in the care of an immigrant so they can pursue a rewarding life of making spreadsheets in a
00:06:23.480 cubicle. There's also a not so subtle aspect of internecine gender warfare here. A lot of women 1.00
00:06:30.640 won't admit this, but there's a fair bit of hostility between working moms and full-time 1.00
00:06:36.360 mothers. One sees the other as sacrificing their duty as a mother for profit or some kind of 0.94
00:06:42.800 personal fulfillment the other sees the stay-at-home mom as somebody who's lazy doing a job 0.90
00:06:48.280 that doesn't really require the full time and is ultimately bailing out of her responsibility to 0.99
00:06:53.720 earn a living to add to the household and to actualize herself in the workplace conservative 0.69
00:06:59.760 organizations are doing the same thing that every other organization is doing in the modern world 0.99
00:07:04.280 they're replacing men with women so as the number of women in conservative organizations increase 0.98
00:07:10.200 the number of feminist voices increases because of course the women in the workplace obviously 0.61
00:07:16.540 have made the choice to be working mothers they are probably not stay-at-home mothers some of
00:07:20.600 them may have stayed at home when the kids were young but a lot of them chose to re-enter the
00:07:24.560 workplace and they see this as again a position that needs to be validated so as the voices in
00:07:29.960 the conservative movement become increasingly female they will also be increasingly working
00:07:34.900 mothers and they will want to validate that strategy they won't want you having any kind 0.99
00:07:39.680 program out there that allows more women to stay home because that is the substandard choice. 1.00
00:07:44.480 That is the invalid choice. The Vance proposal doesn't allocate one additional dollar for 0.91
00:07:50.000 child care. It simply takes funds that couldn't be eliminated through legislation and cleverly
00:07:54.820 uses executive discretion to better distribute those funds. The commentators blasting the
00:08:00.000 program gloss over this, but to be honest, it's doubtful that they even researched the proposal
00:08:05.180 before attacking it. The truth is that many of the commentators only hate the plan because they
00:08:10.760 see it as a useful tool in their war against J.D. Vance. As with so many issues currently dividing
00:08:16.760 the conservative movement, the real motivations of the players center around the future of the
00:08:21.600 GOP and who will lead after Trump is gone.
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