President Donald Trump has instructed the Commerce Department to modify how the U.S. Census Bureau collects data, aiming to exclude immigrants residing in the country illegally from census counts.

Trump announced this directive on his social media platform, highlighting that census data will reflect “modern day facts and figures” and incorporate results from the 2024 presidential election, suggesting a political motivation in the count.

Driving the news: The census is the primary tool that determines political representation and allocation of federal funding nationwide, making any potential changes highly significant. • Mid-decade censuses are allowed for distributing federal funds but are not permitted to be used for congressional apportionment; a census for apportionment purposes und

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