For decades, America has been conditioned to fear having too many people. We were warned about overpopulation, resource shortages, and an unsustainable future if families continued to grow. Politicians, academics, and media commentators repeated the same prediction so often that it became accepted wisdom.

They got it backwards.

Today, the greatest demographic threat facing the United States isn't explosive population growth. It's population decline.

America is no longer replacing itself. Birth rates have fallen well below the replacement level of 2.1 children per woman, leaving our nation on a trajectory that threatens economic growth, Social Security, national security, and ultimately the future of the American experiment itself.

This isn't a distant concern reserved for economists or demographers. It is a challenge that will affect every American family, every worker, every taxpayer, and every generation that follows.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. deserves credit for refusing to ignore the problem. Kennedy has gone on record on a critical issue many leaders have been unwilling to confront: America faces an existential demographic crisis.

He's absolutely right. An aging nation with too few young people eventually struggles to sustain its workforce, support retirees, maintain economic competitiveness, and preserve the civic institutions that depend upon generational renewal. Every major entitlement program assumes that tomorrow's workers will help support today's retirees. That compact begins to unravel when there simply aren't enough children being born.

This is not merely a fiscal issue. It is a national one.

The encouraging news is that the Trump administration and the Make America Healthy Again movement are approaching the issue through a broader lens than previous administrations ever attempted.

For too long, fertility has been treated almost exclusively as a medical issue affecting individual families. MAHA recognizes that declining fertility is also a........

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