Trump Administration Proposes Census Changes That Could Exclude Millions

For more than two centuries, the United States census has operated on a simple and radical premise: count every person present, regardless of origin or status. The Trump administration's proposed overhaul of the 2030 census would dismantle that premise, excluding undocumented immigrants from apportionment counts and removing race-related questions entirely — redefining, in effect, who belongs to the American story worth telling. The consequences would ripple across congressional representation, federal funding, and the government's very capacity to see and understand its own population. What i