Posted on Jan 20, 2021
Biden To End Trump Census Policy, Ensuring All Persons Living In U.S. Are Counted
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One of President-elect Joe Biden's first executive actions 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.
Hours after he is sworn in as president on Wednesday, Biden is expected to sign an executive order that calls for all U.S. residents, in the country legally or not, to be counted in state population numbers that, according to the 14th Amendment, must include the "whole number of persons in each state."
Since the first national head count in 1790, those numbers have never omitted any residents because of immigration status. The counts are used once a decade to reallocate each state's share of electoral votes and the 435 seats in the House of Representatives.
President Trump's plan, which sparked multiple lawsuits after it was issued in July, "violates the Constitution and the Census Act and is inconsistent with our nation's history and our commitment to representative democracy," Susan Rice, Biden's domestic policy adviser, said during a press briefing on Tuesday.
Hours after he is sworn in as president on Wednesday, Biden is expected to sign an executive order that calls for all U.S. residents, in the country legally or not, to be counted in state population numbers that, according to the 14th Amendment, must include the "whole number of persons in each state."
Since the first national head count in 1790, those numbers have never omitted any residents because of immigration status. The counts are used once a decade to reallocate each state's share of electoral votes and the 435 seats in the House of Representatives.
President Trump's plan, which sparked multiple lawsuits after it was issued in July, "violates the Constitution and the Census Act and is inconsistent with our nation's history and our commitment to representative democracy," Susan Rice, Biden's domestic policy adviser, said during a press briefing on Tuesday.
Biden To End Trump Census Policy, Ensuring All Persons Living In U.S. Are Counted
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Can he just issue a single order that invalidates anything signed by Trump. I'm afraid Biden is going to get Carpel Tunnel reversing every order, individually.
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PO1 H Gene Lawrence
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SGT Edward Wilcox
PO1 H Gene Lawrence - Oh, ok, let's take credit for Obama era policies. It's a long list. Not sure how many ways you can say the same thing to make it look like you did something. Most of the list was just him signing something that Congress passed without any input from him. That's just my initial response. I will take a detailed look at the list and see if any of if is really true. Then I will provide a similar list of all the things he did that actually hurt the average citizen.
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CW4 Guy Butler
PO1 H Gene Lawrence Just out of curiosity, when was this written? This caught my eye:
”More than 5 million jobs have been created since President Trump’s election and the unemployment rate remains below 4 percent.”
It hasn’t been at that level since March 2020.
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf
”More than 5 million jobs have been created since President Trump’s election and the unemployment rate remains below 4 percent.”
It hasn’t been at that level since March 2020.
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf
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Wasn't the census required to have been completed last April?
How do you change the count after the fact?
How do you change the count after the fact?
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Capt Gregory Prickett - Counting was.
The report was supposed to have been made by 31 December.
In any event, in the past.
The report was supposed to have been made by 31 December.
In any event, in the past.
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