Being a childless cat lady isn’t looking too bad.

On Tuesday’s episode of “Fox & Friends” co-host Ainsley Earhardt reacted to a massive spike in child-raising costs.

The average price of raising a kid over the course of 18 years in the U.S. has reached $303,418, according to a new study from LendingTree — and it seems that Earhardt, who is a mother herself, could totally understand why.

“Gosh, everything is so expensive,” Earhardt said before listing all the often-overlooked reasons why having a kid can cut into your pocketbook. “And what happens when you have a child is [you’re no longer] buying things for yourself. Everything goes to that child. You think about them constantly. I mean, it depends. It depends on if you’re doing public school, private school. It depends on if you’re saving for college. It depends on if you, you know, all their clothes, all their school supplies, the backpacks. I mean, it all just adds up. All their sports, the sports are expensive. All the uniforms you have to buy for the sports.”

“Right, and that’s, by the way, the bare minimum, they say, with money,” her co-host Brian Kilmeade pointed out about the stunning figure.

The show then pivoted into President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill.” Instead of discussing how policies from this bill — like cuts to Medicaid and tax cuts for the wealthy — have likely contributed to the exorbitant price tag, the Fox News talk show opted for a more MAGA-friendly spin.

“I think the coolest thing is the Trump Accounts, at $1,000 per newborn,” Kilmeade said, referring to a provision that’s tucked into the multi-trillion-dollar bill that gives every infant born in the U.S. within a certain time frame a savings account supplied with a grand.

“When people have a birthday present, you have to go to a 2-year-old’s birthday party, which, what do you get them? Well, what you get them now is, ‘Here’s a bond’ or ‘Here’s a deposit for the Trump Account.’”

Critics, however, have called Trump Accounts a branding scheme that makes the more egregious parts of the president’s bill more palpable.

“That’s exactly what it is. It is branding,” Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), the House sponsor of Democrats’ longstanding and more ambitious baby bonds bill, told HuffPost in August 2025. “ The big ugly bill is deeply unpopular. And so they’re looking for a couple of edicts that they can look to rebrand within that.”

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