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'An insidious ploy': Trump admin's decision to cut census short could have dire consequences

'An insidious ploy': Trump admin's decision to cut census short could have dire consequences

'An insidious ploy': Trump admin's decision to cut census short could have dire consequences
Aug 08, 2020 2 mins, 4 secs

"Even under the best of circumstances, the census is an enormously challenging and very, very difficult operation," said Chris Mihm, the managing director for strategic issues at the Government Accountability Office, a watchdog agency.

Steven Dillingham, the Census Bureau director, said in a statement on the bureau's website that the agency is ending all of its counting efforts on Sept?

Meanwhile, roughly 63 percent of households have responded, according to the Census Bureau.

Many of them live in hard-to-reach areas of the country, such as rural areas and communities with limited access to the internet.

The money funds hospitals, schools, public transportation and small businesses, among other areas — many of the major drivers of daily life and the economy that has been turned upside down by COVID-19.

"We are going to go to the mat to get every New Yorker counted despite the challenges that the Trump administration continues to put in our way," said Julie Menin, New York City’s census director.

The news of the Census Bureau cutting back one month also comes after President Donald Trump signed a memo in July that aims to bar undocumented immigrants living in the country from being included in the census for purposes of deciding how many members of Congress are apportioned to each state.

"This is really an insidious ploy to have cities that have large immigrant communities in particular to lose congressional representation and to have that representation moved to red Republican areas," Menin said.

Krish O'Mara Vignarajah, the CEO of Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, said her organization has done direct outreach to stress the importance of the census and sees the memo and cutting the deadline as the latest wrenches the administration has thrown into the process.

4, four former Census Bureau directors, who served both Democratic and Republican presidents, rang the alarm, warning that cutting the deadline would "result in seriously incomplete enumerations in many areas across our country."

Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., the chair of the powerful House Oversight Committee, in May introduced the Fair and Accurate Census Act, which would extend the deadline and provide the agency with more resources

The Heroes Act, a massive coronavirus aid package that passed the House this past May, also included similar language to extend the census deadline and boost the agency’s budget

Maloney, however, said she sees this fight to extend the statutory deadline and defeat the president’s memo also taking place in the courts because the census "is part of our democracy."

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