Overview

• The New York Times published a profile by Caroline Kitchener portraying Secretary Sean Duffy and Rachel Campos‐Duffy as using their nine‐member household to advance a Trump-era pro-natalist agenda.
• Duffy accused the Times reporter of ideological bias on X, dismissing the profile’s questions about his family as a ‘deranged’ hit piece.
• Second Lady Usha Vance spoke on Meghan McCain’s podcast to reassure parents that expanding from two to three children can be easier than expected.
• Conservative advocates including Lila Rose and White House deputy press secretary Abigail Jackson criticized the article as evidence of liberal hostility toward traditional families.
• A Pew Research Center study this week found that adults in their 20s and 30s now plan an average of 1.8 children, down from 2.3 a decade ago.