Thread by @hansilowang

NEW: One of Biden’s first executive orders will revoke the Trump administration’s policy of excluding unauthorized immigrants from a key census count that, according to the Constitution, must include the “whole number of persons in each state.” From the Biden transition team:

2. After being sworn in as the 46th president of the U.S., Biden is expected to sign this executive order about the census apportionment counts at around 5:15 p.m. ET, after which the actual text of the order is set to be released.

3. “President-elect Biden will ensure that the Census Bureau has time to complete an accurate population count for each state,” the Biden transition team’s fact sheet says.

This, however, will also require Congress to pass a new law that extends legal reporting deadlines.

4. Sen. @brianschatz (D-Hawaii) — who has written to Biden about supporting the 4-month deadline extensions that the Census Bureau requested back in April and the Trump administration stopped asking Congress to pass in July — is expected to do this soon:

https://twitter.com/hansilowang/status/1345097666544472065?s=21

https://twitter.com/hansilowang/status/1345097666544472065

5. Fact checking of Biden team “fact sheet”:

-Trump issued 1 presidential memorandum re: apportionment
-Trump’s plan was to omit a specific group of noncitizens, unauthorized immigrants, from the numbers used to reapportion House seats/electoral votes (no direct funding impact)

6. New York State Attorney General Letitia James, whose office led one of the lawsuits over Trump’s census apportionment memo, reacts to Biden’s plan to revoke it:

https://twitter.com/newyorkstateag/status/1351860212039376901

7. Biden condemned Trump’s census apportionment memo shortly after it was released in July and has been expected to revoke it as president:

https://twitter.com/joebiden/status/1286027988065124352

8. By the way, the Trump administration pledged to a federal judge on Jan. 15 that it’s officially given up on trying to alter the 2020 census apportionment counts, and on Jan. 12, the Census Bureau stopped working on Trump’s plan, as I reported last week:
npr.org/2021/01/13/956…

9. Here's my write-up on the census executive order Biden is expected to sign today as the 46th president of the U.S.:
npr.org/sections/inaug…

10. Sen. @brianschatz (D-Hawaii): "I look forward to working with the Biden Administration on ensuring the Census Bureau has all the time it needs to report its data and make sure every person is counted."