President Trump is trying a new move to restrict the census. If he's successful, it could mean California has fewer seats in Congress.
The president’s directive, which would adopt a practice never before used in U.S. history, faces several major hurdles — legal, logistical and political. For one, the Census Bureau would have five months to come up with a way to accurately estimate the number of residents illegally in each state so that it could subtract them from the overall count.
, including California and Texas. It could also shift power toward whiter, more rural areas of states at the expense of more diverse cities. The move also provided the latest example of Trump’s embrace of divisive issues as he slides further behindin polls of the presidential race. In recent days, Trump has promised to deploy more federal forces to cities led by Democrats, he’s falsely denounced mail ballots as a source of pervasive fraud, and he’s repeatedly described himself as the last line of defense against left-wing radicalism.
Trump’s remarks came on a day when the U.S. recorded more than 1,000 deaths from COVID-19 for the first time since May 29 and as. By comparison, the New York Health Department has reported more than 408,000 infections. But that state has reported more than 25,000 deaths, while California’s death toll is approaching 8,000.
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