Census Bureau to miss deadline, jeopardizing Trump plan – By Matthew Choi (Politico) / Dec 30 2020
It will be the first time that the Dec. 31 target date is missed since the deadline was implemented more than four decades ago by Congress.
The Census Bureau will miss a Dec. 31 deadline for reporting data used to determine congressional seats, the agency announced Wednesday.
The delay could hinder President Donald Trump’s effort to exclude some undocumented immigrants from the figures used to apportion House seats.
The Census Bureau announced it is shooting to deliver its population counts for House apportionment “in early 2021, as close to the statutory deadline as possible.” It will be the first time the bureau will miss the deadline since its 1976 implementation.
“This important process, which has been a part of every decennial census, is critical to produce data that can be used for apportioning seats in the House of Representatives among the states. The schedule for reporting this data is not static. Projected dates are fluid. We continue to process the data collected,” the Census Bureau said in a statement Wednesday evening.
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