Today, I sent a letter to U.S. Census Bureau Director Robert L. Santos because it has come to my attention that the U.S. Census Bureau significantly undercounted the populations of six states, which primarily vote Republican, and overcounted the populations of eight states, which primarily vote Democrat. As a result, these blue states will now have more representation in Congress, more votes in the Electoral College, and receive more federal funds than they should.
According to the 2020 Post-Enumeration Survey (PES), the U.S. Census Bureau significantly undercounted the populations of Arkansas, Florida, Illinois, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Texas, while it overcounted Hawaii, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Rhode Island, Utah, and Joe Biden’s home-state of Delaware. Specifically, the PES said the state of Texas was undercounted by almost 2%, which represents over half a million Texans. At the time of the 2020 census, Texas needed only 189,000 more people to gain another congressional seat.
The numbers don’t lie. Texas was undercounted by 2%, which means we were cheated out of an additional seat in Congress. And four other Republican states were as well. This wasn’t a coincidence because things like this don’t just happen. The swamp in Washington has an agenda. They want Democrats in power and won’t let anything get in their way. We must get to the bottom of what happened. When Republicans take back the House majority, we will use our oversight authority to investigate the Census Bureau and determine how and why these significant errors happened to ensure this doesn’t happen again.
