Sunny Hostin Praises Trump Fertility Care and Child Savings Plans on The View

Sunny Hostin, co-host of The View, called President Donald Trump's proposals to expand fertility care and create investment savings accounts for children good policies on Monday.

The Trump administration announced on Sunday an effort to broaden access to fertility care. The Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services and Treasury proposed a rule for a new category of limited excepted benefits. This would allow employers to offer fertility benefits to workers, according to a press release.

Hostin, who often criticizes Trump harshly, praised the plan. She spoke of her own infertility struggles with husband Manny. They spent their entire life savings on treatments for their two children, with no insurance coverage. They borrowed against their home, for which Manny's parents provided the down payment.

"As someone who also struggled with infertility, Manny and I went through our entire life savings to have our children," Hostin said. "There was no insurance. We were fortunate enough to have a home that his parents gave us a down payment for, and we borrowed against our entire home and our entire savings to have our two beautiful children. And so the fact that something like this is available, where you do have help with IVF, that you do have help with the IVF drugs, I think is a win."

Hostin added that despite much to criticize about Trump, including his racism, xenophobia and misogyny, the fertility help and Trump accounts were good policies. The accounts would give children $200,000 at age 18 to address what she called a national infertility crisis.

"There’s so much to criticize Donald Trump for — especially his racism and his xenophobia and his misogyny, yes — but these particular things where you have an account, a Trump account where your children can have $200,000 when they’re 18 years old and the help with infertility, which is also a crisis in the country, I think you call a thing a thing and I think these are good policies," she said.

Whoopi Goldberg pushed back while praising the fertility expansion. "I think the infertility is great, and I'll believe it when I see people actually getting to do it, but I will not give him this until he takes care of the kids from birth to 18 or 20. I’m sorry. That’s me," she said.

Alyssa Farah Griffin, a co-host who served in the first Trump administration before becoming a critic, also backed the policies. She opened a Trump account for her newborn son. The government matches $1,000, and contributing $5,000 a year could grow it to $100,000 or nearly $200,000 by age 18, tax-deferred, similar to a 529 account or Roth IRA, she said, citing Charles Schwab.

Griffin used IVF for five rounds at six-figure cost. On TrumpRX, one medication cost far less than what she paid. "I paid ten times more than what it’s now available for," she said. She noted Mark Cuban offers something similar with low-cost drugs, calling these tangible impacts. "Trump gives us plenty to critique him on. This is not bad policy."