MTG Says Trump Supports Her Bill to Immediately Draw New Congressional Districts Excluding Non-Citizens

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) posted on X on Monday that President Donald Trump supports her bill requiring that the U.S. government conduct a new census “immediately” to remove non-citizens from the count for Congressional districts.

“I just got off the phone with President Trump!!” wrote Greene on X, adding, “I told him about my new bill I am introducing that will save America’s elections from ever being stolen again! My bill will require the U.S. Census Bureau to conduct a new census immediately upon enactment of the bill. In conducting the new census of the U.S. population, it shall require questions determining the citizenship of each individual, and count US citizens only.”

“Upon completion of the census, the bill will direct states to immediately begin a redistricting of all U.S. House seats process using only the population of United States citizens,” she continued, adding:

Thank you President Trump for your strong support of my bill, Making American Elections Great Again!!!

Let’s get this done!!!

The next U.S. census is not scheduled to take place until 2030, with redistricting beginning in 2031.

The House passed a similar bill in May of 2024 to exclude non-citizens from the census count, but it was not taken up by the then-Democratic-controlled Senate. The U.S. Constitution has always provided for the counting of non-citizens for apportionment, with the infamous compromise between North and South that an enslaved person be counted as “three-fifths” of a free person. Following the Civil War and the adoption of the 14th Amendment, the Constitution directed the census to count the “whole number of persons in each state.”

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) called the May 2024 bill blatantly unconstitutional, saying at the time, “For all of you textualists out there, the plain reading of the text of the Constitution is clear. For all of the constitutional originalists out there, the original purposes have been carefully articulated and never rebutted.” He added that precedent dictates the census count “included every single person residing in the United States, not just those lucky enough to have been given the right to vote at different points.”

Rep. James Comer (R-KY) went to bat for the bill at the time, making clear that Republicans believe it will result in more seats for their party. “Some states end up with greater representation in Congress based on a higher concentration of noncitizens,” Comer said. “This dilutes the ‘one person, one vote’ principle for citizens in states with fewer noncitizens. It is clear that Congress can and should ensure a fair apportionment based on equal representation of citizens.”