Overview

• On Instagram, Schulz reposted a Washington Post report on the administration’s refusal to enforce its IVF coverage pledge and declared, “You don’t break your word. Your word breaks you.”
• Trump had vowed at a Michigan rally in August 2024 to require insurers to cover all IVF costs but the White House now says there are no plans for such a mandate.
• Schulz, who used IVF to become a parent in 2023 and discussed the journey in his Netflix special, has repeatedly warned he would hold Trump accountable for unfulfilled promises.
• He directed his audience to Baby Quest Grants as an alternative source of financial assistance for fertility treatments.
• The incident underscores growing influencer scrutiny of the administration’s reproductive health policy reversals and challenges to its political credibility.