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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Andrew Feinberg

Trump demands new census using ‘2024 election information’ and to weed out migrants in population totals

President Donald Trump ordered the Commerce Department to re-run the count of the U.S. population that took place five years ago while excluding any migrants in the U.S. from the total.

Writing Thursday on Truth Social, Trump said he’d asked the department, which oversees the U.S. Census Bureau, to “immediately” start what he called “a new and highly accurate CENSUS based on modern day facts and figures” making use of “the results and information gained from the Presidential Election of 2024.”

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