Trump officials revive a bid to alter the U.S. census and reshape voting maps

NPR | By Hansi Lo Wang

Published September 10, 2026 at 4:43 AM EDT

The Trump administration is making a new push to exclude millions of U.S. residents from a key census count that the 14th Amendment says must include the "whole number of persons in each state."

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