President Donald Trump introduced in a social media publish on Thursday that he has directed the Department of Commerce to start work on a new US census that excludes undocumented immigrants from the inhabitants depend.
“I have instructed our Department of Commerce to immediately begin work on a new and highly accurate CENSUS based on modern day facts and figures and, importantly, using the results and information gained from the Presidential Election of 2024,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.
“People who are in our Country illegally WILL NOT BE COUNTED IN THE CENSUS,” the president added.
Trump’s proposal marks a dramatic shift from longstanding census practices. The survey has traditionally counted all residents no matter immigration standing.
The announcement additionally comes amid rising stress from the White House for Republican-led states to redraw congressional maps in a means that would strengthen the GOP going into the 2026 midterms.
The Constitution mandates a nationwide census each ten years to decide congressional illustration, and the census web site states it’s “designed to count every resident in the United States.”
Trump previously attempted to change the 2020 Census throughout his first time period, repeatedly saying he would proceed preventing to insert a citizenship query into the 2020 census, regardless of the Supreme Court blocking the hassle.
Trump then retreated from his quest, as an alternative asking government agencies to provide records that would decide a head depend of residents with out polling census-takers straight.