Census Bureau Misses Population Count Deadline

The Census Bureau will miss today’s deadline to produce the population count used to divide seats in congress between the states.
There are no penalties associated with missing the deadline but, now the key question remains whether the Census Bureau and Commerce Department will present the tally to President Trump prior to his departure from office on January 20th. If the numbers are completed during the Trump presidency, he may attempt to exclude some undocumented immigrants for the division of house seats. The Supreme Court recently overturned rulings that would have blocked that policy. It’s unclear if the Trump administration has sufficient data to carry it out or if that data would be enough to actually affect how many seats each state receives. The Census Bureau hasn’t publicly revealed how it plans to determine who is in the country illegally since the Supreme Court last year prohibited a citizenship question from being added to the census questionnaire.