Hansi Lo Wang:
It’s really not clear.
I think we should go back to what President Trump has said so far, calling for a new census. We’re not sure if he’s talking about the 2030 census. We’re not sure if he’s talking about the census before a 2026 midterm election that Representative Greene is calling for.
And so there’s a lot of confusion there, a lot of questions. But it is happening at the same time, this call for a new census, as well as this push in Texas, as well as other states, to redraw congressional maps. And if there were to be a new census, there would be a lot of legal questions. There will be lawsuits.
But it would theoretically come up with a new set of numbers that could theoretically shift congressional seats among the states. But there are a lot of legal hurdles, there are a lot of practical hurdles that have to be overcome before we even get to those type of — to get to that point.
