"The cause isn't an abnormal number of deaths or a plummeting birthrate - though that's slipping too, exacerbating the trend - but instead a collapse in the rate of migration from 2.7 million people in July, 2024 down to just 1.3 million in 2025 as the White House does everything in its power to make the country hostile to immigrants."
"In the United States, nothing terrifies the new right quite like population decline. It's arguably their defining feature; a constant anxiety over something they perceive to be an existential threat. So in a contradiction that only Donald Trump could pull off, their chosen leader is accelerating that decline unlike any president in US history. According to Bloomberg, one well-regarded population estimate warns that 2026 is primed to be the year of the first real population decline in the 250 year history of the United States."
Population decline has become a major political anxiety on the new right in the United States. The Trump administration's aggressive deportation campaign has sharply reduced net international migration. US Census data show total population grew only about 0.5 percent (1.8 million) from July 2024 to July 2025. Migration fell from 2.7 million in July 2024 to 1.3 million in 2025, and projections put net international migration near 321,000 by July 2026. The Congressional Budget Office projects the US birth surplus will collapse by 2030, making immigration essential for population growth. Advanced economies often see population decline as GDP rises and children become financial liabilities rather than assets.
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