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From the article: The nation’s population is expected to be smaller and grow more slowly over the next three decades due to the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration. A Congressional Budget Office report states that the U.S. population will reach 367 million by 2055, a reduction of 5 million from earlier forecasts.

Deaths are also expected to outpace births by 2031, two years earlier than anticipated, creating a paradox where fewer migrant families will be present to have children, leading to a population decline that can only be countered by allowing more immigrants into the country to counterbalance it.

Fertility rates have also declined more than expected, according to a report from the CDC. The CBO estimates that around 290,000 immigrants will be forcibly removed from the country between 2026-2029, with a further 30,000 “voluntarily” deporting themselves.

This results in a labor force with fewer working-age adults, which could stifle economic expansion. While the CBO still projects positive net immigration for 2025, it cautions that its forecasts are highly sensitive to policy changes. A detailed economic forecast, based on the new projections, is expected to be released on Friday.

This is not surprising. The United States, like other countries, has had lots of demographic momentum; the baby boom was big and the US had a high rate of sub replacement fertility and relatively low mortality for a long time. The contrast with a Germany that began experiencing natural decrease in the early 1970s is noteworthy.

A population policy that is at once hostile to immigrants, does nothing to deal with rising rates of premature mortality, and does not enable family formation is of course going to waste this momentum.

I suggested in another sub that this issue had just as much to do with recent abortion bans than religious or misogynist intent and got downvoted to hell.

I was expecting a 4-year dumpster fire, with random pops and explosions within that metaphorical dumpster fire, all of which should be mostly ignored.

Man-oh-man, are we exceeding expectations for diversity of awfulness and irreversibility of consequences.

Only 3.25 years remaining, optimistically presuming an election & regime change.

I find it CRAZY people think this is a bad thing – global population has more than DOUBLED since I was a kid – due to automation/tech we’ve never needed so few people on the pla

this is a very good thing.

its ok

infinite growth is not worth the trouble, look at what’s happening to EU

as technology gets better, there will be less people

Big four nations that emigrate to the United States

Mexico, China, India, Philippines.

Birth rates within those nations.

Mexico – 1.9, China – 1.0, India – 1.9, Philippines – 1.9

All four are below replacement themselves so within the next generation the tug of war over people will likely shift as nations don’t want a drain of workers/consumers.

Future population at the cost of the current population is not worth it. It’s better to stop immigration and let the population dwindle and stabilize for a while than to replenish it with outsiders

I refuse to offer up future wage-slaves for our soon-to-be trillionaire class. Although this choice is now intentional on my part, a series of events over the last 20-some years really made it financially unfeasible for me to have children and now, I’m grateful I don’t.

The problem is that in a lot of western society there is a cult of nihilism. A glorification of guns and aggressive war like masculinity, and a denegration of women. A profound lack of empathy, in fact empathy is looked upon as best a weakness and at worse an evil to be rooted out. A rejection of Enlightenment values. An increasing trend towards Christian Theocratic Fascism. An exploitive Late Stage Capitalism tending towards Oligarchism and obsessive extraction of wealth from ordinary people to the ultra-wealthy. None of these things promote a healthy society that encourages people to start families.

So…. they’re literally saying the great replacement out loud? Lol People can’t afford to have kids (and the propaganda has been telling them not to for a solid decade) so let’s import 3rd world people who are comfortable living in slums, expecting less, and still reproducing.

People are assets.  Yes, even the poor, the tired and the huddled masses.  Population growth has coincided with economic growth and progress for a reason.  Rejecting these assets is as silly as rejecting a bunch of free resources.  Anti-immigration policies make us all poorer short and long run.  

Headlines are dumb. It has to be immigration huh? No chance that native US citizens are just having less kids? Or that infertility is on the rise?

The most important thing that people can do combat climate change is to stop having children.