⁍ California, Florida and Texas would end up with one less congressional seat each than if every resident were counted.

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⁍ Without that population, California would lose two seats instead of one, Florida would gain one seat instead of two and Texas would gain two seats instead of three.

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– If President Trump succeeds in getting immigrants in the country illegally excluded from being counted in the redrawing of US House districts, California, Florida, and Texas would end up with one less congressional seat each than if every resident were counted, according to an analysis by a think tank. Without that population, California would lose two seats instead of one, Florida would gain one seat instead of two, and Texas would gain two seats instead of three, according to the analysis by Pew Research Center. Additionally, the Pew analysis shows Alabama, Minnesota, and Ohio would each keep a congressional seat they most likely would have lost during the process of divvying up congressional seats by state known as apportionment, which takes place after the US Census Bureau completes its once-a-decade head count of every US resident. Federal law requires the Census Bureau to hand over the final head-count numbers used for apportionment to the president at the end of the year, but the bureau is asking Congress for an extension until next April 30 because of disruptions caused by the pandemic. Besides being used to divvy up congressional seats, the 2020 census results will help determine how many votes in the Electoral College each state gets and the distribution of $1.5 trillion in federal funding. Every resident of a state is traditionally counted during apportionment, but Trump last Tuesday issued a directive seeking to bar people in the US illegally from being included in the headcount as congressional districts are redrawn. Trump said including them in the count “would create perverse incentives and undermine our system of government.” At least four lawsuits or notices of a legal challenge have been filed.