在一篇社交媒体帖子中，特朗普宣布他指示商务部“立即开始根据现代事实和数据进行新的高度准确的人口普查，更重要的是，利用从2024年总统选举中获得的结果和信息。”
“在我们国家非法居留的人不会被计入人口普查，”特朗普补充道。
美国人口普查局表示，它“收集所有参与人口普查和调查的外国出生者的数据，无论其法律地位如何”，并在其235年的历史中一直这样做。这些数据决定了435个众议院席位如何每10年在50个州之间分配。
特朗普周四宣布这一消息之际，德克萨斯州正在就一份拟议的国会地图摊牌，如果该地图获得通过，共和党人将在明年的中期选举中获得三到五个美国众议院席位。
德克萨斯州民主党人逃离该州以示抗议，拒绝共和党人就这些变化投票所需的法定人数。共和党州长格雷格·艾伯特(Greg Abbott)现在正在探索这些议员的法律后果，命令德克萨斯州公共安全部找到并逮捕离开该州的议员，并要求德克萨斯州最高法院将德克萨斯州众议院民主党人撤职。
由于美国众议院的控制权可能岌岌可危，蓝州民主党人誓言，如果德克萨斯州共和党人成功改变他们的地图，他们将以同样的方式回应。
纽约州州长凯西·霍楚尔和加利福尼亚州州长加文·纽瑟姆表示，他们将探索重新划分地图的方法。在宪法修正后，这两个州目前都使用独立委员会来绘制他们的地图。
鉴于共和党在众议院的微弱优势，更多的共和党州长也在探索在2026年选举前重新绘制国会地图的可能性。民主党只需要在明年11月净得三个席位就能赢回众议院。
副总统万斯将于周四访问印第安纳州，与共和党领导人讨论重划选区和其他问题。
特朗普在第一个任期内试图改变美国人口普查，将非公民排除在外。2019年，最高法院裁定，商务部试图在2020年人口普查中增加公民身份问题违反了联邦法律。
Trump orders new census excluding undocumented immigrants amid redistricting battles
artment to "immediately begin work on a new and highly accurate CENSUS based on modern day facts and figures and, importantly, using the results and information gained from the Presidential Election of 2024."
"People who are in our Country illegally WILL NOT BE COUNTED IN THE CENSUS," Trump added.
The U.S. Census Bureau says it "collects data from all foreign born who participate in its censuses and surveys, regardless of legal status" and has done so for its 235-year history. The data determines how the 435 House seats are divided among the 50 states every 10 years.
Trump's announcement on Thursday comes amid a showdown in Texas over a proposed congressional map that, if enacted, could net Republicans between three and five U.S. House seats in next year's midterm elections.
Texas Democrats fled the state in protest, denying Republicans the necessary quorum to vote on the changes. Republican Gov. Greg Abbott is now exploring legal consequences for those lawmakers, ordering Texas Department of Public Safety to find and arrest lawmakers who left the state and asking the Texas Supreme Court to remove a top Texas House Democrat from office.
With control of the U.S. House potentially at stake, blue-state Democrats are vowing to respond in kind should Texas Republicans succeed in changing their map.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and California Gov. Gavin Newsom said they will explore ways to gerrymander their maps. Both states currently use independent commissions to draw their maps following constitutional amendments.
More Republican governors, too, are exploring possibly redrawing congressional maps ahead of the 2026 elections given the GOP's razor-thin margins in the House. Democrats would need to only net three seats next November to win back the House.
Vice President JD Vance is visiting Indiana on Thursday to discuss redistricting and other topics with Republican leaders.
Trump in his first term attempted to change the U.S. census to exclude noncitizens. In 2019, the Supreme Court ruled that Commerce Department's attempt to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census violated federal law.
