JEFF CHILDERS

A new battlefront opened in the war on motherhood—with Hungary leading the charge. Yesterday, Reuters reported, “Hungary’s Orbán launches tax exemption for mothers, ” Hungary’s Prime Minister, a long-time Trump ally, announced a new plan trying to reverse devastating depopulation trends: a lifetime income tax exemption for women who bear two or more children.

A lifetime income tax exemption is a powerful incentive. Progressives whine that it is unfair to women with fertility problems, men in general, and specifically all the unattractive men who identify as women with two or more children. But fairness misses the point. Economics doesn’t care about feelings—it cares about incentives. Basic economic laws say you get more of whatever you pay for.

Pay for illegal immigrants, and voila, you get millions of illegal immigrants. Pay for more kids, the theory goes, and save your civilization from demographic collapse.

The Prime Minister’s plan might be improved by requiring exempted mothers to be married (or widowed), to avoid subsidizing single parenthood. But even that sensible guardrail might be too limiting for a country facing an imminent population implosion.

Orbán wasn’t done. He also announced tax rebates per child, and for infant and child care allowances. He said —following the “Trump model”— Hungary would define gender as binary, male and female, and hinted at canceling Pride parades. But then it got particularly interesting: Orbán said that, with DOGE’s help, Hungary would root out “pseudo-NGOs serving foreign interests and organizing political operations before our very eyes.”

“We can finish off the Budapest branch of the empire by Easter,” the Prime Minister declared. Hungarians didn’t miss the hint—‘Budapest branch’ was a veiled shot at Hungary’s most notorious export, George Soros— the Deep State’s favorite USAID-funded financier.

Two weeks ago, Orbán said the world owes a “debt of gratitude” to President Trump for ending the “dark conspiracy” of USAID. Telex, February 6th:

And so we can begin to perceive the vast, incalculable, worldwide effects of DOGE’s USAID disclosures. And the long-standing, Orwellian empire of the Deep State’s covert interference begins running out of road.