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Biden To End Trump Census Policy, Ensuring All Persons Living In U.S. Are Counted

President-elect Joe Biden is set to reverse Trump's policy of excluding unauthorized immigrants from a key count that the Constitution says must include the "whole number of persons in each state."
Protesters hold signs at a rally about the 2020 census in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in 2019. President-elect Joe Biden is set to reverse the Trump administration's policy of excluding unauthorized immigrants from population numbers used to reallocate congressional seats and Electoral College votes.

One of President-elect Joe Biden's is set to reverse the Trump administration's unprecedented policy of altering a key census count by excluding unauthorized immigrants. The change will ensure that the U.S. continues to follow more than two centuries of precedent in determining representation in Congress and the Electoral College.

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