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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 Trumps efforts to exclude people in the country illegally from the count if the figures arent 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.
It will be the first time that the Dec. 31 target date is missed since the deadline was implemented more than four decades ago by Congress.
Internal documents obtained earlier this month by a House committee show that Census Bureau officials dont see the apportionment numbers being ready until days after Biden is inaugurated on Jan. 20.
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rzemanfl
(29,554 posts)So incompetent.
hedda_foil
(16,371 posts)It's the result of the incompetence and corruption throughout the maladminstration of the beast, but it's one that's actually a net positive for our side.
calimary
(81,127 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,762 posts)Dumbshit can't do anything right.
Xolodno
(6,384 posts)...cut it short, exclude non citizens, etc. is what eventually slowed it down. Add COVID and coupled with out clear direction due to the President and GOP Congress members trying to change the rules....boom. It backfires.