How the GOP won by losing on census citizenship question – Roll Call

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How the GOP won by losing on census citizenship question

CQ on Congress podcast, Episode 159

Protesters hold signs at a rally in front of the U.S. Supreme Court, which on June 27, 2019 blocked a citizenship question from being added to the 2020 census. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

By Michael Macagnone, Shawn Zeller and Toula Vlahou

Posted June 28, 2019 at 2:12pm

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GOP-held states with growing immigrant populations, Texas, Florida and Arizona, are more likely to gain House seats following the 2020 Census, as well as additional federal funding, if a citizenship question remains off, as the Supreme Court ordered on June 27. In this episode of the CQ on Congress podcast, CQ Roll Call reporter Michael Macagnone and Bryce Dietrich, a fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School, discuss why Republican lawmakers continue to back President Donald Trump’s plan to add it.

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