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US Census Bureau to miss deadline, jeopardising Donald Trump's plan

The Census Bureau plans to announce it will miss a year-end deadline for handing in numbers used for divvying up congressional seats

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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.

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.

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It will be the first time that the December 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 don't see the apportionment numbers being ready until days after Biden is inaugurated on January 20.

 

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.

(Only the headline and picture of this report may have been reworked by the Business Standard staff; the rest of the content is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)

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First Published: Dec 31 2020 | 7:27 AM IST

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