President Donald Trump announced plans to change the way U.S. Censuses are conducted. (Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post) By Dan Merica and David Nakamura

President Donald Trump said Thursday that he plans to conduct a census that would not count people present in the country illegally, an order that clashes with the Constitution and would face legal challenges. Subscribe for unlimited access to The Post You can cancel anytime. Subscribe

Trump wrote on his social media site, Truth Social, that he had “instructed our Department of Commerce to immediately begin work on a new and highly accurate CENSUS based on modern day facts and figures.” PAID PROMOTED STORIES

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