U.S. Census director quits early
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Census Bureau Director Steven Dillingham announced his resignation Monday, amid controversy about his allegedly pressuring employees to rush reports about undocumented U.S. residents. File Photo by Tasos Katopodis/UPI | License Photo
Jan. 18 (UPI) The head of the U.S. Census announced his resignation Monday, almost a year before he was scheduled to retire, amid a showdown over the Trump administration s orders about the counting of undocumented U.S. residents.
In a resignation letter on his agency blog, Census Bureau Director Steve Dillingham praised U.S. Census employees who made great sacrifices to continue our work during the global pandemic.
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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.
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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…