President Donald Trump on Thursday called on his Commerce Department to begin work on a “new” census that would exclude undocumented migrants and reflect results of the 2024 election, a move would have wide-ranging implications for political and economic power in the US.

President Donald Trump announced in a social media post on Thursday that he has directed the Department of Commerce to begin work on a new US census that excludes undocumented immigrants from the population count.

Trump demands new census using ‘2024 election information’ and to weed out migrants in population totals - A ‘mid-decade census’ is permitted under the law but not for the purpose of redrawing House d