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Drudge Retort: The Other Side of the News
Sunday, January 18, 2026

Since the start of his second term, President Donald Trump has made it clear he's concerned about America's low birth rates, and the country's aging population.

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... His administration passed a number of policies at the start of 2025 aimed at boosting birth rates, including an executive order expanding access to in vitro fertilization (IVF) and a Department of Transportation directive to give precedence to "communities with marriage and birth rates higher than the national average."

However, after a recent report highlighted that financial and other kinds of uncertainty are continuing to hinder birth rates in America, experts have weighed in on what more the administration should be doing about the population crisis. ...

As more women are choosing to focus on their careers, it means they are not having children because of what some describe is a "mismatch between the desires of men and women""the idea that women tend to make compromises in their working lives to have children instead of men, and those who are more career-focused may opt to delay having children, potentially until it's too late. ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-01-18 08:38 PM | Reply

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... Trinity Christian College, Siena Heights University and Sterling College couldn't pull through.

In 2025, they succumbed to a fundamental problem killing colleges across the US: not enough students. The schools will award their final degrees this spring, stranding students not yet ready to graduate and forcing faculty and staff to hunt for new jobs. ...


#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-01-18 08:40 PM | Reply

Apparently his new population control strategy is called, Shoot Them in the Face.

#3 | Posted by Corky at 2026-01-18 08:53 PM | Reply

Hmmmm, meanwhile HBCUs are seeing unprecedented enrollment.

What ever could it mean?

#4 | Posted by fresno500 at 2026-01-18 09:03 PM | Reply

Hmmmm, meanwhile HBCUs are seeing unprecedented enrollment.
What ever could it mean?

#4 | Posted by fresno500 at 2026-01-18 09:03 PM | Reply | Flag

And in a country awash with billionaires and oligarchs, nobody saved Lincoln College in Illinois from financial demise.

#5 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-01-18 09:06 PM | Reply

@#4 ... What ever could it mean? ...

Maybe the Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) are experiencing elevated enrollment because of the divisiveness and white-supremacy that Pres Trump as put into the current culture?


#6 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-01-18 09:09 PM | Reply

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