The Domestic Policy Council delivered recommendations Monday to the White House on how to increase access to in vitro fertilization. What those recommendations are — and how President Donald Trump, the self-proclaimed “fertilization president,” plans to implement them — is still a mystery.
White House officials are considering a host of options, according to Kaylen Silverberg, chair of Americans for IVF’s advisory board and an adviser to the Domestic Policy Council. In recent months, Silverberg has spoken with Trump’s chief of staff, Susie Wiles, DPC’s director, Vince Haley and deputy director Heidi Overton, as well as officials at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Department of Health and Human Services.
“They were very interested in so many different things,” Silverberg told NOTUS. “I’ve been going to Washington for over 20 years and talking to congressmen and senators about multiple different issues, and I’ve just never been impressed, honestly, as much as I am about this issue, as to how focused they are on trying to fix a problem.”