Trump’s revenge on #California: The Census https://t.co/TmYsA1xBtb
— Bill Postmus (@billpostmus) January 17, 2018
...Fear is rising among Democrats over the prospect that President Donald Trump’s hard line on immigration might ultimately cost California a seat in Congress during the upcoming round of reapportionment.
Top Democrats here are increasingly worried the administration’s restrictive policies — and the potential inclusion of a question about citizenship on the next U.S. census — could scare whole swaths of California’s large immigrant population away from participating in the decennial count, resulting in an undercount that could cost the state billions of dollars in federal funding over the next decade and, perhaps, the loss of one of its 53 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives....
Buried lede:https://t.co/QbMEzScFry pic.twitter.com/RsU3wAynYW
— Joel Engel (@joelengel) January 19, 2018
