Census Bureau to miss deadline, jeopardizing Trump plan for divvying up congressional seats by not counting people in country illegally

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The Census Bureau plans to announce it will miss a year-end deadline for handing in numbers used for divvying up congressional seats, a census official said. That delay could undermine President Donald Trump's efforts to exclude people in the country illegally from the count if the figures aren't turned in before President-elect Joe Biden takes office.

A census official who was not authorized to speak publicly on the matter confirmed the delay to the Associated Press on Wednesday.

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Internal documents obtained earlier this month by a House committee show that Census Bureau officials don't see the apportionment numbers being ready until days after Biden is inaugurated on Jan. 20.

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Once in office, Biden could rescind Trump's presidential memorandum directing the Census Bureau to exclude people in the country illegally from numbers used for divvying up congressional seats among the states. An influential GOP adviser had advocated excluding them from the apportionment process to advantage Republicans and non-Hispanic whites.

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Census Bureau to miss deadline, jeopardizing Trump plan

The Census Bureau will miss a year-end deadline for handing in numbers used for divvying up congressional seats, a delay that could undermine President Donald Trump’s efforts to exclude people in the country illegally from the count if the figures aren’t submitted before President-elect Joe Biden ta

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[Humidex]

Whoops

 

[Bentendo24]

That's a shame

 

[grand]

The Trump Administration: the only group to lose to obvious office stall tactics

Gotta love it

 

[MarioW]

His own worst enemy. Weren't they trying to under-resource/under-fund the whole exercise?

 

[foxuzamaki]

Maybe there is a god

 

[wisdom0wl]

OH NOO

anyway

 

[TheMadTitan]

He can't even cheat right. Stay losing.

 

[Commedieu]

i feel like if you're a budding up and coming fascist wanna be dictator this really is a roadmap on how to take over america the right way.

All trumps roadblocks have been self inflicted because hes a fucking moron.

But hes tested every fiber of the constitution and with some success along the way.

 

[Finale Fireworker]

We should just redo the entire census, as we are headed.

 

[foxuzamaki]

Actually thinking about this some more, I'm willing to bet they're letting this hit deadline on purpose once they figured out a surprising amount of latinos vote Republican

 

[pez2k]

Actually thinking about this some more, I'm willing to bet they're letting this hit deadline on purpose once they figured out a surprising amount of latinos vote Republican

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Probably even simpler than that - the top boss says you need to screw around with the numbers in a way that nobody's done before, and he's out the door for sure in a few weeks to be replaced by a new boss who won't want them to do that. Easy life for everyone if they just postpone doing that screwing around until it's not needed any more.

 

[Fat4all]

We should just redo the entire census, as we are headed.

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im almost expecting a census redo in the next year or two

 

[Finale Fireworker]

im almost expecting a census redo in the next year or two

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Even aside from the fact they tried to do it as racist as possible, by all accounts it's just a mess. They were understaffed, underfunded, and working during a pandemic. Everything we've heard from everyone who worked on the process has said the data is a mess.

We would benefit from a do-over.

 

[daveo42]

This is becoming a comedy of errors for Trump, especially when he is actively trying to fuck things up for future admins.

 

[SteveWinwood]

yeah even barring all the stupid racist shit they should have just moved the census a year or two later when hopefully there wasnt a deadly worldwide pandemic

 

[BWoog]

I doubt Trump gives a shit now that he lost.

 

[Gengahrrr]

too busy crying in his room