Trump officials propose testing a citizenship question amid a push to alter the census
Participants in the 2026 field test for the 2030 census may be asked about U.S. citizenship amid efforts to exclude noncitizens from apportionment counts and ongoing legal challenges.
On the Missing Inspector General Report[s] about Wilbur Ross' Lies
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross twice misrepresented the full rationale for reinstating a citizenship question on the 2020 census, concealing earlier involvement predating a DOJ request.
Republican plan would make deanonymization of census data trivial
Differential privacy adds statistical protection to census outputs, and removing it would risk exposing personal data and discourage immigrant participation.