Origin: Trump proposes excluding noncitizens without green cards from 2030 census

The Census Bureau posted a proposed rule for the 2030 count that changes who is included in the population totals used to divide U.S. House seats and Electoral College votes. The draft would exclude all noncitizens without a green card from being counted for those totals, not only people here illegally. That would leave out undocumented residents as well as refugees, asylum seekers and others with lawful status short of permanent residency.

The package would also rewrite the questionnaire, dropping race, ethnicity and sexual-orientation items and adding a citizenship question. If adopted, the change would shift how House seats and electoral votes are divided and alter how federal money is steered to states that rely on census counts.

AI-synthesized from multiple reported sources