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The Trump admin­is­tra­tion will press its bid to exclude ille­gal aliens from the pop­u­la­tion base­line for award­ing House seats on Mon­day in the Supreme Court, a move that would shift polit­i­cal clout away from states with large undoc­u­ment­ed populations.

Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s July order to exclude ille­gal aliens from the appor­tion­ment could be one of his most con­se­quen­tial acts in office. States like Cal­i­for­nia, where approx­i­mate­ly 6 per­cent of the pop­u­la­tion is undoc­u­ment­ed, will lose out on con­gres­sion­al seats and untold mil­lions in fed­er­al funds if the admin­is­tra­tion prevails.