Exclusive: 142 State Lawmakers Urge Trump To Appoint Census Director To Ensure ‘Accurate’ 2030 Citizen Count:
‘Nominating a qualified Census Bureau director at this crucial time is an integral part of ensuring that the 2030 Census accurately fulfills its constitutional purpose.’
A coalition of more than 140 state lawmakers is calling on President Trump to immediately appoint a Census Bureau director to ensure an “accurate” citizen count for the 2030 Census, The Federalist has learned.
“The Census determines political power in America for the next decade. After admitted inaccuracies and distortions created by statistical sampling and other schemes like differential privacy that were used in the 2020 Census, we need a bold new Census director who will take the reins post haste to make the necessary changes to the process,” Louisiana Freedom Caucus Chair and Rep. Beryl Amedée told The Federalist. “We must ensure an honest and accurate citizen count in 2030. The clock is ticking.”
In a Monday letter organized by the State Freedom Caucus Network (SFCN), the growing number of Republican officials urged Trump to appoint a director to the U.S. Census Bureau, which has operated without a Senate-confirmed leader since early 2025. The agency is responsible for taking a census of the American population every 10 years and — more notably — decides how many U.S. House seats each state is awarded (known as “congressional apportionment”).
While detailing the need for an “accurate, reliable count of our nation’s citizens,” the lawmakers expressed concern that the Census Bureau “has drifted from its constitutional mission.” They specifically signaled dissatisfaction with the bureau’s “continued reliance on differential privacy, statistical adjustments, and other methodologies that corrupt reported data to distort an actual enumeration of our citizenry,” which they argued “has eroded public trust.”
The Census Bureau released a report in 2022 admitting that it undercounted mostly Republican-led states (five of six) and overcounted mostly Democrat-led states (six of eight) in its 2020 census. Put another way, mostly Democrat states were given congressional seats they didn’t deserve, while mostly Republican states were wrongly deprived of seats.
Addressing Trump, the signers of Monday’s letter also expressed worry about the “removal of the citizenship question from the household census form.” They argued that such a policy “has empowered the non-citizen population count to deform congressional apportionment and state and federal redistricting.”
As Federalist Senior Contributor Ben Weingarten previously observed, “Continued inclusion of noncitizens in the Census would mean that millions of illegal aliens and temporary visa holders would continue to distort Americans’ political representation by skewing the allocation of House seats and presidential electors, along with the distribution of trillions of dollars in federal funds.” A January 2026 forecast by the American Redistricting Project estimated that an accurate 2030 apportionment without noncitizens would lead to blue states like California and New York losing House seats and red states like Florida and Tennessee gaining seats.
“The U.S. Constitution calls for an actual enumeration of our citizens; not a misleading tally padded by illegal aliens and skewed by statistical gimmickry,” Missouri Freedom Caucus Chair and Sen. Nick Schroer told The Federalist. “President Trump must nominate a Census Bureau director who will restore that constitutional standard and ensure the 2030 Census accurately counts only U.S. citizens.” --->READ MORE HERE
Counting Noncitizens In The Census Undermines American Democracy:
The Trump administration should take all necessary action to ensure that the next Census is carried out to benefit the American people.
he Trump administration’s finding that some 250,000 noncitizens reside on the voter rolls of just four states — California, Nevada, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania — represents a clear and present danger to the integrity of our elections. Revelations from Democrat Gov. Mikie Sherrill of a purported Garden State “glitch” accounting for 6,600 noncitizen registered voters, hundreds of whom illegally cast ballots, further confirm the danger and vindicate the administration’s vigorous effort to obtain and review every state’s voter records to identify ineligible voters and compel states to remove them.
But the revelations also ought to turn America’s attention to a related threat: the counting of noncitizens in the Census, which distorts congressional apportionment and the allocation of Electoral College votes for presidential elections. The threat is one the administration may be preparing to confront head-on.
At the end of June, the Census Bureau proposed a rule for addressing this threat. The Office of Management and Budget Review rule titled “Decennial Census of the Population of Americans; Proposed Residence Criteria and Proposed Regulations for Demographic Questions” has neither been published nor finalized. But we got a hint as to what it might entail based on the administration’s correspondence with the plaintiffs in a case brought by the state of Missouri. The Show Me State, like the states of Louisiana, Kansas, Ohio, and West Virginia in separate litigation, has challenged the Census Bureau’s Residence Criteria rule. The rule governed the 2020 Census, codifying the counting of all people where they usually reside — including illegal aliens and temporary visa holders.
Among other things, the plaintiffs have called on the courts to hold unlawful and set aside that Residence Criteria rule. In response, the Trump administration, in calling for a stay of Missouri’s case, asserted that the new proposed rule “encompasses various policy positions for the 2030 Census” and “is expected to bear directly on the issues presented in this case” — alluding to the issue of illegal aliens’ inclusion in the Census.
Continued inclusion of noncitizens in the Census would mean that millions of illegal aliens and temporary visa holders would continue to distort Americans’ political representation by skewing the allocation of House seats and presidential electors, along with the distribution of trillions of dollars in federal funds. Even if the states purge every illegal alien from the voter rolls tomorrow, this foreign interference, which directly affects the voting power and political power of every single American, will persist absent executive action.
The counting of noncitizens in the constitutional enumeration and apportionment process, like the entry of noncitizens on the voter rolls, is a consequence of mass illegal immigration and cynical political moves designed to incorporate said migrants into America and normalize their presence in advance of mass amnesty. Such moves have ranged from sanctuary policies to efforts to obstruct and eliminate immigration enforcement altogether.
They also include gifting noncitizens a variety of benefits, from food stamps to health care to the right to vote in local elections. Illegal aliens ended up on the voter rolls, and thereby able to cast ballots in New Jersey, as a direct result of the extension of another such benefit: driver’s licenses. The process of obtaining a driver’s license is inextricably linked to voter registration since the passage of the 1993 federal “Motor Voter” law. From at least the Carter administration onward, as the illegal alien population surged, presidents have likewise intentionally granted them and other noncitizens an undue benefit: power over our entire system of government, starting with the political map, through inclusion in the Census. --->READ MORE HERE
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