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Donald Trump's Impact on US Birth Rates

America's fertility rate is now projected to average 1.6 births per woman over the next three decades, according to the Congressional Budget Office's latest forecast released this year. This is well below the replacement level of 2.1 births per woman required to maintain a stable population without immigration.

Which fascinating fact gave rise to to Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy's exhorting his minions to favor "communities with marriage and birth rates higher than the national average" in doling out transportation services — with this masterpiece of beaurcratic obfuscation.

To wit:

"To the maximum extent permitted by law, DOT-supported or -assisted programs and activities, including without limitation, all DOT grants, loans, contracts, and DOT-supported or -assisted State contracts, shall prioritize projects and goals that ... to the extent practicable, relevant, appropriate, and consistent with law, mitigate the unique impacts of DOT programs, policies, and activities on families and family-specific difficulties, such as the accessibility of transportation to families with young children, and give preference to communities with marriage and birth rates higher than the national average."

And if that doesn't kill your buzz, nothing will.