Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ to shrink U.S. population: CBO

Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act will shrink the size of the U.S. population by hundreds of thousands of people, mostly due to new laws supporting Trump’s immigration crackdown.

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) found Wednesday that by 2035, there will be 320,000 fewer people in the U.S. subject to Social Security and 280,000 fewer people in the noninstitutionalized population, the group of U.S. people who aren’t in prison, the military or in long-term medical care.

The numbers are relative to a January estimate and are “highly uncertain,” depending on factors like judicial rulings and detention capacity, the CBO cautioned.

The bill allotted more than $70 billion over four years to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to boost border security operations. It also gives $47