The Trump administration is planning to dramatically reshape the data the Census Bureau collects, setting the stage for an audacious effort to curtail crucial information used in voting rights complaints and revive a right-wing effort, pursued in Trump’s first term, to exclude undocumented immigrants from the count used to determine how many members of Congress represent each state in Congress.
TPM has obtained a draft of a notice of proposed rulemaking from the Census Bureau that is being circulated within the administration. The proposed rule, under consideration by the Department of Commerce, attempts two things: to exclude broad categories of noncitizens from the count in the 2030 Census, and to eliminate the collection of race and ethnicity data for the first time since 1790.
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The Trump administration is planning to dramatically reshape the data the Census Bureau collects, setting the stage for an audacious effort to curtail crucial information used in voting rights complaints and revive a right-wing effort, pursued in Trump’s first term, to exclude undocumented immigrants from the count used to determine how many members of Congress represent each state in Congress.
TPM has obtained a draft of a notice of proposed rulemaking from the Census Bureau that is being circulated within the administration. The proposed rule, under consideration by the Department of Commerce, attempts two things: to exclude broad categories of noncitizens from the count in the 2030 Census, and to eliminate the collection of race and ethnicity data for the first time since 1790.
Click here to read the full article.
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