Sunny Hostin praises Trump’s IVF and child savings policies despite longtime criticism

NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK: ‘The View’ co-host Sunny Hostin surprised viewers during the Monday, May 11, episode of the daytime talk show after openly praising two policy proposals tied to President Donald Trump, despite being one of his most vocal critics on television.

Hostin spoke positively about the Trump administration’s push to expand fertility care benefits and the creation of tax-deferred “Trump Accounts” for children, saying both proposals could genuinely help American families struggling financially and emotionally.

Sunny Hostin shares personal infertility struggle while praising IVF expansion

The conversation began after the Trump administration announced on Sunday that the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and the Treasury were proposing a new rule to expand access to fertility care for workers.

According to the proposal, employers would be able to offer additional fertility-related benefits, including support for IVF treatments and medications.

Hostin became emotional while discussing the topic and connected the policy directly to her own experience building a family with her husband, Manny.

“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,” she continued.

Hostin explained that fertility treatments placed enormous financial pressure on families like hers and said she understood firsthand how life-changing expanded coverage could be for couples trying to have 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,” she added.

Sunny Hostin says Trump's policies should be acknowledged when they help families

Hostin then widened the conversation beyond IVF and addressed the administration’s “Trump Accounts” initiative for children.

“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,” Hostin said.

The remarks created one of the more unusual moments on ‘The View,’ especially because Hostin has frequently clashed with Trump’s policies and rhetoric in past discussions.

The Trump Accounts were created under the “One Big Beautiful Bill” signed on July 4, 2025.

The accounts function as tax-deferred investment funds for children born between January 1, 2025, and December 31, 2028.

Eligible children receive a $1,000 federal contribution at birth, while families and employers may contribute additional amounts within specific limits.

Whoopi Goldberg pushes back as Alyssa Farah Griffin backs the policy

While Hostin praised the proposals, fellow co-host Whoopi Goldberg pushed back during the discussion.

“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,” Goldberg said.

Meanwhile, co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin defended the policies and revealed that she personally opened a Trump Account for her newborn son.

“I set up a Trump account for my son when he was born,” Griffin said.

“The government matches $1,000. And if you were to contribute 5,000 a year, which that’s higher end, you would do - that’s like tax-free, tax deferred - Charles Schwab says at 18, it would have about 100,000 or almost $200,000 in it,” she explained.

Griffin also shared her own IVF experience, revealing that she underwent five rounds of treatment that ultimately cost six figures.

On the topic of prescription drug prices tied to TrumpRX, Griffin said some medications now appeared significantly cheaper than what she previously paid.

“I paid ten times more than what it’s now available for,” Griffin said.

“This isn’t new. Mark Cuban has something very similar, where he has low-cost drugs, but these have tangible impacts to help people. So my thing is, Trump gives us plenty to critique him on. This is not bad policy.”