OMB head says layoffs will be ‘north of 10K’ as judge blocks cuts
The judge also set a hearing for Oct. 28 on whether to issue a similar preliminary injunction, a more permanent block, and a quick briefing schedule.
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The judge also set a hearing for Oct. 28 on whether to issue a similar preliminary injunction, a more permanent block, and a quick briefing schedule.
The House floor schedule this week features two key items. One of those is a bill designed to stop so-called "Midnight Rules."
While lawmakers plan to move the supplemental funding outside of the annual appropriations process, a tight schedule and stalled talks on border funding pose issues for the potential package.
The project has faced criticism from environmental groups and is years behind schedule, in part due to permitting delays and court challenges.
House Commerce-Justice-Science ranking member Matt Cartwright, D-Pa., said NASA’s long-term projects, like the Mars Sample Return mission, need consistent funding levels to ensure the programs stay on schedule
“None of us could anticipate that as we fully launched the 2020 Census, a global health crisis would upend a schedule and plans which had been carefully constructed over a decade,” Dillingham’s statement
The coronavirus pandemic as well as decisions by the Trump administration hampered efforts to count everyone in the country, resulting in a shortened census schedule and a blown end-of-year statutory deadline
The agency uses those interviews to ensure that enumerators did not make mistakes or take shortcuts, but it cut them short because of the truncated schedule.
Senate schedule Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is keeping his chamber occupied confirming judges and other nominees even though the Kentucky Republican’s party lost the White House.
That resulted in a shortened schedule with in-person counting efforts ending Sept. 30, which became the subject of the lawsuit.
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.
[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
The director of New York City’s census effort, Julie Menin, called the schedule change “a disgusting power grab” by the administration. The city’s response rate currently stands at 54 percent.