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Judge orders Census Bureau to keep counting through October
Internal agency emails released in the lawsuit show career officials raising alarms about inaccuracies introduced by the shortened schedule.
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Internal agency emails released in the lawsuit show career officials raising alarms about inaccuracies introduced by the shortened schedule.
According to a Census Bureau document leaked to congressional Democrats, the shortened schedule for the 2020 headcount threatens the integrity of data.
will conclude all enumeration efforts on Sept. 30, and then comb through data before wrapping up the whole process by Dec. 31 — half the time the agency originally anticipated after delaying its initial schedule
[Census Bureau to halt counting efforts a month early] “I believe that this deviation in schedule is driven not by expert opinions of career Census Bureau employees but by external pressure
Census officials also said the administration did not plan to use all of its $2 billion contingency fund to deal with the altered operation schedule.
Jacky Rosen pressed Dillingham to account for more than 100 potential fixes to census systems that had not been conducted, pointing out that the census will operate on a tight schedule.
Dillingham said at an event last week that the agency is “on schedule and on budget” for other efforts like address verification.
While several aspects of the preparations, including address verification, are on or ahead of schedule, the U.S.
Staff issued Thursday’s public version of the president’s schedule late Wednesday night; it included nothing about the citizenship question or the census.
The judge approved a schedule for discovery on those claims Friday, despite the DOJ’s argument that doing so would be “premature” while it is still trying to discover a route forward.