Trump has politicized it.
BREAKING: A federal judge in California has ordered the Census Bureau to stop winding down in-person counting efforts for the #2020Census until court hearing is held on 9/17 in lawsuit by National Urban League-led coalition pushing for more time to count.https://t.co/6Ho5hxUmon
— Hansi Lo Wang • 2️⃣3️⃣? DAYS (@hansilowang) September 6, 2020
The 2020 census is fighting a losing battle against the coronavirus and President Trump. NPR’s @hansilowang explains how a decade of money and power are at stake.
— Vox (@voxdotcom) September 5, 2020
Listen to @today_explained: https://t.co/rYwKCknzVX
Trump administration says legal challenges to excluding undocumented immigrants from census are premature https://t.co/VtCmKSnMVY pic.twitter.com/Y5DeT6M1S3
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) September 3, 2020
On 7/29, Wilbur Ross's top aide asked the Census Bureau to come with a plan to rush the 2020 count. Here's that plan, presented to Ross on 9/3 and given to Congress by a whistleblower. It warns of a risk of "serious errors" in the data's accuracy https://t.co/Wix41Jn1sN pic.twitter.com/UTkTtVSiCf
— Tierney Sneed (@Tierney_Megan) September 2, 2020
The shortened schedule for the 2020 census increases the risk of "serious errors" in the results, according to an internal Census Bureau document obtained by the House Oversight and Reform Committee. https://t.co/zemOErbSbd
— NPR (@NPR) September 2, 2020
NEW: The Census Bureau is ending #2020Census door knocking in some parts of the U.S. even earlier than expected — on Sept. 18 in San Diego area, possibly within next 2 weeks in Minneapolis area — and that may further hurt public confidence in the count.https://t.co/xmDPHeCPig
— Hansi Lo Wang • 2️⃣7️⃣ DAYS (@hansilowang) September 1, 2020
Well this is a disaster. Two Trump judges on Trump's latest attempt to rig the census. https://t.co/ApBc9GFzWu
— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) August 25, 2020
Sad! 