Posted on 07/12/2025 6:02:56 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Donald Trump and his allies have the U.S. census in their sights as they continue to pursue their anti-democratic visions for the country.
Touring a controversial new immigrant detention center in Florida on Tuesday, Donald Trump excitedly backed a proposal from far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., that would drastically alter the U.S. electoral map if implemented. Greene said Monday that her proposal, which she said she will introduce in the House, would require the Census Bureau to “immediately” conduct a new census — even though the census takes place every 10 years, with the next one set for 2030.
“In conducting the new census of the U.S. population, it shall require questions determining the citizenship of each individual, and count US citizens only," Greene wrote in a post on X. "Upon completion of the census, the bill will direct states to immediately begin a redistricting of all U.S. House seats process using only the population of United States citizens."
Essentially, it would be an accelerated and further-reaching proposal than the bill House Republicans passed last year, which the Senate — controlled by Democrats at the time — didn't take up.
Speaking on behalf of himself and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who was standing beside him, Trump said Tuesday that they “love” the idea. He went on to frame the proposal as a response to his false claim that Democrats rigged the 2020 election by allowing “millions” of unauthorized voters to cast ballots.
DeSantis then accused the Biden administration of rigging apportionment to harm Republicans — an odd claim considering the ways the process seems to have benefited Republicans.
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The Bee pretends to be insane. MSNBC doesn’t.
It’s unbelievable.
Yet another nation-wide issue the demo-commies are on the wrong side of - 80/20. If this gets nailed down solid, you’ll find the commie areas of the country less inclined to coddle the illegals, because the illegals can’t do anything for them politically. Though they might try to use them for local elections.
Correct.
Biden regime massively rigged the last census.
On top of that non citizens should NOT be counted in any census.
Republicans should push this new way of counting for the census through.
This is literally the Babylon Bee.
I was dead certain it was the Bee. After all, who could write a headline like this with a straight face?
"Trump backs renewed push to rig the U.S. census by only counting citizens. . ."
What are they supposed to count? The squirrels, too?
This is exactly why we need to be deporting 7000 to 10,000 illegals a day.
MSNBC has it wrong; Trump is trying to “Un-Rig” the Census.
Well, we’re certainly not counting illegals for 3/5s, either!
That is not an opinion piece is it🤬?
I wonder what rationale there is for including non citizens in the census...
(And how is it determined that only citizens fill out the census, anyway?)
ha ha
“rig the census” ...to count American citizens... ha ha ha
this is the kind of extreme leftist propaganda we get in such abundance these days
Orwell sure knew what he was talking about!
The count should not include illegals.
The author of this Hit piece......is a racist and anti- Trump.
To be honest it doesnt matter if they count noncitizens.
What matters is if the noncitizens are counted in the total in how many representatives a state has.
I say they should not factor in at all, they are not citizens. The state should not get extra reps for noncitizens living in them. Only citizens should be voting for reps anyways. Therefore thats who the reps, represent.
If they are gonna say they represent noncitizens they are also working for/representing foreigners interests, and that is not acceptable.
Rig?
Noncitizen views dont count.
Another 80/20 issue I bet and MSNBC is against it.
LOL.
You can’t make this stuff up … lol !!!
California let’s armed ICE Agents be attacked.
Imagine what would happen to Census workers.
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