Nancy Pelosi and Charles Schumer demanded that the administration explain its decision to end the survey a month early.
-related restrictions, it could not conduct an accurate count on its original timeline, which would have meant finishing the count by July 31 and delivering data to be used for congressional apportionment by Dec. 31. Census data is also used for redistricting and the disbursement of federal funds.
Instead, the bureau said it would finish the count Oct. 31 and asked Congress to approve a four-month deferment of the delivery date to April 30. The House passed a coronavirus relief package approving the delay, but a draft of a Senate relief bill has not included a similar approval.that the window to deliver the data by Dec. 31 had passed. But on Aug. 3, the government announced the Sept.
Referring to a comment last month by White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, who said that “the Democrats just want to control the apportionment and we aren’t going to let them do that,” Pelosi and Schumer wrote, “It appears that Mr.
A Census Bureau representative confirmed the numbers Ross cited. But the bureau has experienced an unusually high rate of attrition among the temporary workers hired during the pandemic, according to a report by the Government Accountability Office, the Commerce Department’s inspector general, and the bureau’s own public comments.
Completing a count does not guarantee the completeness or accuracy of the data collected, Lowenthal said, adding that a quarter of households that did not respond on their own might be counted on the basis of incomplete information from neighbors or landlords. And the movement or displacement of millions of people since April 1, Census Day, can result in inaccuracies that need to be investigated, she said.
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