Public Transportation and Smart Growth

If the policy is implemented, it would generally hurt Democratic-voting areas. For example, Oregon has low birth and marriage rates, as does New York state and much of the Northeast.

But while blue cities may have lower birth rates than other cities, they are often growing faster because more people are moving there, including more immigrants.

The nation’s falling fertility rate has become a major focus of some conservatives, like Elon Musk, who posts about it often on his social media platform X.

And when Vice President JD Vance spoke at the March for Life rally in Washington, D.C., earlier this month he said: “I want more babies in the U.S.”

https://www.wunc.org/2025-02-03/trumps-dot-want-highways-and-transit-get-married-have-babies