Nearly 14 million households have yet to be counted in this year’s census -- and the Census Bureau has less than two weeks to reach out to them before the Trump administration’s rushed September 30 deadline.
The census count provides crucial information that helps determine how congressional districts are drawn, how $1.5 trillion in federal funding is distributed, and how many Electoral College votes each state gets. The information it provides will impact American lives for the next decade.
The Democratic House passed a bill in May to extend the census deadline to ensure an accurate and representative count during the coronavirus pandemic -- but Republicans blocked the legislation in the Senate, and the Trump administration later decided to cut the count a month short to create what the Census Bureau is calling a “highly compressed timeline.”
After his unsuccessful attempts to exclude undocumented immigrants from the census and add citizenship status to the list of questions, Trump is now rushing a critical nonpartisan step in our democracy to erase entire communities from the political map.
We refuse to allow Trump to destroy yet another pillar of our democracy for political gain. The Trump administration must reverse its decision and extend this year’s census to ensure every person is counted.
Thank you for joining us in the fight against Trump’s tyranny.
