Less than a week after President Trump said he has ordered a “new” census, the cabinet official who oversees the Census Bureau acknowledged Tuesday that Congress, not the president, has final say over the national head count that’s used to reshape election maps and guide federal funding, NPR has exclusively learned.
Speaking at a town-hall event for the bureau’s employees, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick also suggested that when tallying the country’s population, the census should differentiate people living in the U.S. without legal status from other residents, according to three Census Bureau employees, who asked NPR not to name them because they fear retaliation…
You know, I recall another fascist weaponizing a census. Wonder how that went.
Well it got Mary to Bethlehem.
No undocumented people will answer the census lol. They will be too afraid that ICE is not far behind the census people. Then Trump will come out and brag how there are no illegals in the country and what a great job he did.
That would be great, tho. Just let him say that a few times, and after waiting a bit to let the programming reach the MAGA herd and be interpreted by their “special” brains, the ones hiding can come out and be safe, assumed to be legal since he “got rid” of the illegal ones.
Impossible. They need the boogieman, and it’s too early to start turning on minorities before midterms.
But imagine if he did roll out and say “no more illegals, look at what Trump did for you all”. Lmao. Would be something epic 😄
*Former Trump official
