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When Headlines Fail: Trump's Empty IVF Promise and the Woman Who Believed It
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When Headlines Fail: Trump's Empty IVF Promise and the Woman Who Believed It

The Washington Post profiled a woman who lost her job to Project 2025 after voting for Trump because he promised free fertility treatments. The real failure here belongs to the press.

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Yesterday, the Washington Post published a story about Ryleigh Cooper, a 24-year-old Forest Service employee who voted for Donald Trump in part because he promised to make IVF treatments free — a campaign pledge he made last August. Now, she's been fired due to the administration's federal workforce purge (part of that Project 2025 plan Trump claimed wa…

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