President Trump Thursday called for creation of a new census that would count only U.S. citizens despite the Constitution’s edict that all people living in the country should be included.

Trump also hinted he might not wait until 2030 for the next census and said the count that is used for dividing up congressional seats and federal budget dollars should be based on “information gained from the Presidential Election of 2024,” without elaborating.

The government should “immediately begin work on a new … census based on modern day facts and figures,” Trump wrote on his social media site. “People who are in our Country illegally will not be counted in the census.”

Trump tried during his first term to exclude undocumented immigrants and other non-citizens from the 2020 Census, which w

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