Embattled Census Bureau director resigns
Tara Bahrampour, The Washington Post
Jan. 18, 2021
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The embattled director of the U.S. Census Bureau is resigning in the wake of allegations that he had supported a partisan push to deliver data to President Donald Trump before the president leaves office.
Steven Dillingham s resignation will be effective Wednesday, according to a farewell message he sent to bureau staff, posted Monday on the bureau s website.
Reports last week from bureau whistleblowers said political appointees were pressuring staff there to release data by Jan. 15, regardless of its accuracy. Those reports prompted calls from civil rights groups and Democratic lawmakers for him to resign.
Census Bureau says it will stop trying to provide Trump with tally of undocumented
Tara Bahrampour, The Washington Post
Jan. 14, 2021
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WASHINGTON - The U.S. Census Bureau has apparently abandoned its effort to compile tallies of undocumented immigrants, effectively ending President Donald Trump s quest to exclude them from congressional apportionment, according to a letter posted on its website Wednesday afternoon.
The statement came a day after the Commerce Department s Office of Inspector General (OIG) sent a letter outlining reports from whistleblowers who said Trump appointees in the bureau have been making a last-ditch push to produce tallies of undocumented immigrants so the president could try to exclude them from congressional representation before he leaves office next week.
The efforts by President Trump’s cronies to politicize census data have continued to the bitter end of his administration, according to new information from the…
Update: This story was updated to include a response from Census Director Dillingham. The Census Bureau was told Tuesday evening to cease work on a directive…
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