Overview

• The five‑page executive summary, reported by the Washington Post, outlines a push to encourage marriage and childbearing through a government‑led effort branded a “Manhattan Project.”
• The draft proposes steering money from child‑care programs such as Head Start into government‑seeded family accounts designed to support parents staying home with children.
• It recommends requiring every federal initiative to be evaluated for its effects on marriage and family, with programs that score poorly to be overhauled.
• The paper reportedly criticizes egg freezing, IVF, surrogacy and genetic screening and attributes falling births to cultural factors including contraception, abortion, pornography and no‑fault divorce.
• Heritage has not verified the leaked text, while policy chief Roger Severino says a rollout is imminent and both internal staff and outside experts have voiced strong objections.