Dem issues GOP leaders scathing fact-check on US Census: report
Rep. Jasmine Crockett recently offered "House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer and South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace a lesson in institutional racism during a hearing on the U.S. Census," according to MSNBC's Ja'Han Jones.
The hearing last week was centered around "the bureau's activities ahead of the 2030 census," according to Jones, "which could affect everything from how many House members a state gets to how much federal spending each congressional district can tap."
Jones reports that the Lonestar State lawmaker "cited census data showing that Texas’ population grew by 4 million people from 2010 to 2020 and quizzed Census Director Robert Santos about the underlying data, which earned the state two additional seats in Congress."
Crockett commented, "Of those 4 million people, do you wanna take a guess at how many were Anglos?"
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However, "'When Santos guessed a majority,' the Texas congresswoman offered "the exact number, '180,000 — that’s it, of 4 million people.'"
Furthermore, Jones notes, "We added 4 million people. They were people of color. Texas got two new seats. So they took those Black and brown and Asian bodies, and guess what? Do you think we got a new Black or brown or Asian seat? Somehow, the way that they do their Republican math in the state of Texas, that amounted to two new white seats. Guess what? White, Republican seats."
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