A newly disclosed memorandum from Census Bureau officials shows how the Trump Administration and Department of Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross tried to bully the Bureau into separately counting non-citizens from the population count. The Administration was hoping to exclude the noncitizens from the congressional reapportionment.
The resistance by Census Bureau bureaucrats was admirable. Bannon and Trump supporters would call this interference by the “deep state.” The real interference, of course, was attempted by the political hacks appointed by the Trump administration. Thank goodness there were people with integrity willing to fight back.
See Michael Wines, “Census Memo Cites ‘Unprecedented’ Meddling by Trump Officials,” New York Times, (Jan. 16, 2022), p. 21.
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