Trump is sabotaging America's greatest demographic advantage

"A profoundly dangerous and destabilizing thing." That's how Vice President JD Vance recently described America's falling birthrate.

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Recently, the “inherently pronatalist” White House is considering a new set of proposals to address it — including government-funded menstrual cycle education and even a national medal for women who bear six or more children. But while Republicans may recognise the problem, their broader agenda actively undermines the most immediate and effective solution to population decline: immigration. The Trump administration is enacting an all-out assault on immigration. Breaking from decades of Republican rhetoric that championed legal immigration, the current approachtargets not just undocumented migration but legal pathways as well. This includes suspending the refugee admissions programme, revoking Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for hundreds of thousands, canceling student visas, sharply increasing denials of high-skilled work visas, and calling to end birthright citizenship.