We Finally See Trump Administration’s Sweeping Census Power Grab Emerge

beSpacific 2026-08-13

Summary:

TPM’s Layla A. Jones and Josh Kovensky published a major story yesterday outlining a new, draft Commerce Department rule [Wired first reported the draft rule’s existence] that is circulating within the Trump administration. Our story includes documents that TPM is the first outlet to make public. The rule aims to do two things: exclude undocumented ...

Link:

https://www.bespacific.com/we-finally-see-trump-administrations-sweeping-census-power-grab-emerge/

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Tags:

censorship

Authors:

Sabrina I. Pacifici

Date tagged:

08/13/2026, 09:49

Date published:

08/12/2026, 22:09