Over the last two years, estimates for the overall U.S. population have hovered above 331 million, based off the 2020 census, with the latest estimate from the U.S. Census Bureau in its American Community Survey putting the number at 334,914,896.

The direction comes amid Trump's push to weaken the political power of those voters less likely to support him.

President Donald Trump announced in a social media post on Thursday that he has directed the Department of Commerce to begin work on a new US census that excludes undocumented immigrants from the population count.