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Census Bureau director to resign amid criticism over data:
Facing criticism that he was acceding to President Donald Trump's demand to produce citizenship information at the expense of data quality, U.S. Census Bureau director Steven Dillingham said Monday that he planned to resign with the change in presidential administrations.
Dillingham said in a statement that he would resign on Wednesday, the day Trump leaves the White House and President-elect Joseph Biden takes office. Dillingham's term was supposed to be finished at the end of the year.
The Census Bureau director's departure comes as the statistical agency is crunching the numbers for the 2020 census, which will be used to determine how many congressional seats and Electoral College votes each state gets, as well as the distribution of $1.5 trillion in federal spending each year.
In his statement, Dillingham said he had been considering retiring earlier, but he had been persuaded at the time to stick around.
"But I must do now what I think is best," said Dillingham, 68. "Let me make it clear that under other circumstances I would be honored to serve President-Elect Biden just as I served the past five presidents."
[...] During Dillingham's tenure, the Trump administration unsuccessfully tried to put a citizenship question on the 2020 census questionnaire and named a handful of political appointees that statisticians and Democratic lawmakers worried would politicize the once-a-decade head count of every U.S. resident. The president also issued two directives that advocacy groups said were part of efforts to suppress the participation of minorities and immigrants in the 2020 census.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 19 2021, @10:37PM (1 child)
"So, we can't have the children stay with the parents who are illegal immigrants in jail, because that's inhumane."
Just exactly who said that?
Loads of Republicans also objected to the policy of splitting children from their parents.
AC-to-AC; YOU ARE A MORON. Not a Democratic moron, not a Republican moron, you are simply a moron, period,
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 19 2021, @10:55PM
They were saying the Democratic party proclaimed played both sides of the issue depending on whatever the Republicans moved forward with.
If they're a moron, you're down right retarded.