CNN interrupted for Donald Trump 'breaking news' ahead of huge announcement

CNN's regular programming was halted for breaking news as millions prepared to hear President Donald Trump's fresh update on the American census. Speaking to journalist Brad Todd about the census, the presenter said: "One of the biggest things is it helps decide the congressional maps," and asked: "Does this have everything to do with redistricting?" As Brad confirmed: "It does." He then dropped a bombshell and claimed: "We know the 2020 census, the errors were almost always to the detriment of red states."

The presenter then questioned: "Do we know that?" To which he hit back: "We do know that, the census bureau's own audit of its work has proven that. Blue states like Rhode Island were overcounted, Red states like Alabama were undercounted." Brad continued: "This is just a fact; it wasn't all red, blue, but it was disproportionate." This comes after Trump announced last month that he’s ordered the Commerce Department to “immediately begin work on a new and highly accurate CENSUS” that will not count undocumented immigrants.

Excluding millions of people living in the country without legal status is an unprecedented change to how the country has conducted its population count since the first U.S. census in 1790.

The nation's 14th Amendment requires the "whole number of persons in each state" to be included in a key set of census numbers, which are used to determine how presidents and members of Congress are elected.

Although the President has not yet released any details about the plan, according to the Constitution, Trump does not have final authority over the census.

Trump said he's instructed the Commerce Department, which oversees the Census Bureau, to "immediately begin work" on a census using "the results and information gained from the Presidential Election of 2024."

Despite this, CNN have reported on a number of "pronounced problems" with the President's census shake-up, as they claimed the magnitude of the census process "takes a decade of work" and that they have "strict rules" about the process, including the questions which need to be "agreed upon two years in advance".

In addition to the timeframe, Article 1 of the Constitution gives Congress and not the president, the power over the “actual enumeration” of the population.

According to the broadcaster, Congress has previously authorised the Commerce Department to conduct a “mid-decade census” in years ending in five, such as 2025.

They also claimed that Trump's main motivation for this is "to get undocumented immigrants out of the count." However, the Constitution says congressional districts are to be apportioned based on “the whole number of persons in each State.”