How MAGA’s Census Fight Would Reshape Political Power

The battle over the 2030 Census is intensifying — and compounding concerns about President Donald Trump’s broader moves to suppress the political power of the nation’s growing non-White population.

As in Trump’s first term, Republicans in the executive branch, in Congress and at the state level are advancing proposals to exclude undocumented immigrants — and possibly the much larger population of all residents who are not citizens — from the decennial Census count used to apportion House seats and Electoral College votes.