Bill O'Reilly here. You are listening to the O'Reilly update. Coming up next, the news with Mike Slater.

Thank you, Bill. It is Friday, August 8th, 2025. Here's this happening today in America.

Redo the census. Redistricting war continues. Trump targets CEO and Superman joins ICE.

It's all coming up and Bill's going to be here with your message of the day.

But first, big political news.

The president said a truth yesterday.

I've instructed the Department of Commerce to immediately begin work on a new and highly accurate census.

People who are in our country illegally will not be counted in the census.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

The census, which is usually done every 10 years, that ends with a zero, this counting of people

determines how many congressional seats every state has, which determines how many

electoral college votes every state has.

The last census was done in 2020, but in 2022, the census, and Joe Biden's administration,

admitted, they admitted that they undercounted in five states, Arkansas, Florida, Mississippi,

Tennessee, and Texas, all Republican states, and they overcounted in Delaware, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York,

and Rhode Island, all blue states. Gosh, golly, wouldn't you know it? It's believed that if we just

had an accurate count, that would be 10 congressional seats that the Democrats would lose

and Republicans would gain. And then, of course,

10 electoral college votes. So on top of that, the census has been counting illegal aliens.

Stephen Miller and Elon Musk have said that if we don't count illegal aliens, the Democrats

could lose as many as 20 seats and 20 votes in the electoral college, which would make it

nearly impossible for a Democrat to win the White House in

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