The guy is screwing up the Economy….
Now?
It appears that his immigration policy IS probably ending centuries of American Growth in population which also helps the countries Health and Financial Well Being…
This IS something else that the history books will hold against the First American Felony President’s second term in office….
The United States is on the precipice of a historic, if dubious, achievement. If current trends hold, 2025 could be the first year on record in which the US population actually shrinks.
The math is straightforward. Population growth has two sources: natural increase (births minus deaths) and net immigration (arrivals minus departures). Last year, births outnumbered deaths by 519,000 people. That means any decline in net immigration in excess of half a million could push the U.S. into population decline. A recent analysis of Census data by the Pew Research Center found that between January and June, the US foreign-born population fell for the first time in decades by more than one million. While some economists have questioned the report, a separate analysis by the American Enterprise Institute predicted that net migration in 2025 could be as low as negative 525,000. In either case, annual population growth this year could easily turn negative….
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Trump won the 2024 election due to a cost-of-living backlash. But zero immigration can easily become stagflationary. A smaller workforce means lower output (stagnation) while labor shortages can push up wages and prices in the short term (inflation).
The first impact would be generational. “Immigrants tend to be much younger than the rest of the US population,” Frey told me. Nearly one-quarter of today’s under-18 population is native-born with immigrant parents, and another 5 percent are foreign-born children. In a negative-immigration world, the under-18 population would quickly fall.
Soon after, the workforce itself would contract. A stagnant or shrinking labor force isn’t an acute shock. It’s like a chronic disease with medium and long-term side effects that range from mildly troublesome to deeply problematic. In time, the effect of fewer workers would be far-reaching for our cities, our economy, and our politics.
Big metros have quietly been living off immigration for years. Census tabulations analyzed by Brookings show that among the 54 large metros that grew in 2023–24, immigration accounted for all of the growth in about 20 and at least half in another 24. Without the inflow of foreign-born folks, many of the country’s marquee hubs—including New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Boston—would see a declining workforce in a few years, if not within a few months. In practical terms, this would mean fewer riders for transit, thinner tax bases for schools and services, and severe labor shortages throughout these metros, hitting tech, restaurants, coffee shops, hotels, taxi and Uber drivers, and more.
Little in life is more fundamental than food, shelter, and medicine. Each of these economic sectors—farming, housing, and health care—are hugely reliant on foreign-born workers, and each should expect major problems almost immediately in a period of shrinking or net-zero immigration….
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Whoever wins the next few elections will face the same arithmetic. The U.S. cannot grow through native-born fertility alone. As immigration collapses, the US population will stagnate and even shrink. Urban economics will buckle. Fields will go unharvested. Homes will go unbuilt. Sick Americans will go untreated. Life-saving medicines will go undiscovered. Many voters hated the era of record immigration. They might hate the era of record deportations even more….