President Donald Trump said he instructed the Department of Commerce to “immediately begin work on a new and highly accurate CENSUS.”
He said this will be “based on modern day facts and figures and, importantly, using the results and information gained from the Presidential Election of 2024,” and claimed that “People who are in our Country illegally WILL NOT BE COUNTED IN THE CENSUS.”
The president’s request contradicts the U.S. census schedule mandated by the Constitution. Article I, Section 2 of the Constitution requires that a census be conducted every 10 years in order to appoint the number of seats in the House of Representatives to each state by population.
The census has been conducted every 10 years since 1790. It was last conducted in 2020.
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