With preparations for the 2030 census already underway, Trump said Thursday he has instructed his administration to start work on a “new” census.
According to a social media post by Trump, that census would exclude millions of people living in the country without legal status — an unprecedented change to how the country has conducted population tallies since the first U.S. census in 1790.
The 14th Amendment requires the “whole number of persons in each state” to be included in a key set of census numbers used to determine how presidents and members of Congress are elected.
Going to be hilarious when they do this and it ends up hurting Florida and Texas the most. They’ll end up losing a ton of congressional seats, mostly out of Republican controlled areas. They’ll have to scramble to redistrict again to keep their gerrymandering going.