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AXIOS (Avery Lotz) - Trump's census plan could reshape voting maps, eliminate race questions

The Trump administration's renewed attempt to rewrite the rules for counting the U.S. population could upend congressional apportionment in future elections and likely spark a flurry of legal challenges. Why it matters: The administration has proposed cutting undocumented immigrants and people without lawful permanent status from the 2030 tally, a sharp expansion of Trump's prior attempts to overhaul the count that could redefine who is considered part of the U.S. population. - "The current administration wants to have their own definition of who are real Americans, which is not the same as what the census has counted for many, many decades," says William Frey, a senior fellow with Brookings Metro and a demographer who has been a…

The Trump administration's renewed attempt to rewrite the rules for counting the U.S. population could upend congressional apportionment in future elections and likely spark a flurry of legal challenges. Why it matters: The administration has proposed cutting undocumented immigrants and people without lawful permanent status from the 2030 tally, a sharp expansion of Trump's prior attempts to overhaul the count that could redefine who is considered part of the U.S. population. - "The current administration wants to have their own definition of who are real Americans, which is not the same as what the census has counted for many, many decades," says William Frey, a senior fellow with Brookings Metro and a demographer who has been a…Open