January 18, 2021 1:44 p.m.
Census Director Steve Dillingham will be stepping down on Jan. 20, cutting short by nearly a year the five-year director term, which was scheduled to expire on Dec. 31.
Dillingham announced his resignation plans in an internal Census Bureau email obtained by TPM.
Dillingham’s tenure atop the bureau was plagued by myriad controversies since his confirmation in Jan. 2019. His refusal to publicly push back on the efforts by the President and his allies to politicize the 2020 census has long prompted criticism from both within and outside the bureau. In recent days, the scrutiny intensified with the revelation of his involvement in a pressure campaign to push the bureau’s experts to produce data on noncitizens and undocumented immigrants before the end of Trump’s presidency.
The director of the Census Bureau has pushed career employees to finalize a technical document that would help achieve President Trump’s goal of excluding undocumented immigrants from the decennial congressional apportionment, according to an insp
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