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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAnything to win: Trump Administration Exerted 'Unprecedented' Census Engagement
Trump Administration Exerted 'Unprecedented' Census Engagement In Bid For Political Gain: MemoFormer President Donald Trump and his administration demonstrated unprecedented engagement in the census process in a brazen bid for Republican political gain, according to a newly released memo written by a frustrated Census Bureau official.
The scathing memo from September 2020 appeared to be written by Census Bureau Deputy Director Ron Jarmin and sent to two other top Bureau officials as Trump was desperately pressing to end the population count weeks early in an attempt to manipulate it in favor of him and the GOP.
The memo listed several instances of meddling by Trump and his officials that the Bureau planned to share with Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, whose department oversees the Bureau. It complained about attempts to breach the privacy of census respondents, the use of estimates to fill in data, pressure to take shortcuts, and attempts to identify undocumented immigrants.
Ultimately, the Trump administration was attempting to hijack an independent system governed by statistical science to serve Trump and the Republican Party, Jarmin suggested.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-census-meddling-gop-gain-memo-brennan-center_n_61e37ab6e4b0d8b6656c2792
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Anything to win: Trump Administration Exerted 'Unprecedented' Census Engagement (Original Post)
UCmeNdc
Jan 2022
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(15,785 posts)2. One reason I did not volunteer..
His antics n lawsuits just made me sick. I watch PBS and Finding your Roots n its amazing how much the Census information is so important and for him to degrade our Constitutional charge for every 10 years is another crime, imo. His intent to destroy our everything we hold dear is his legacy. The worst person ever