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Wednesday, July 3, 2019
Delay in census could gum up fi nely calibrated planning
Monday was the
deadline to start
printing documents
By MIKE SCHNEIDER
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Pres-
ident Donald Trump said he
has asked about delaying the
2020 census over a citizen-
ship question, but experts
say any delay could gum up
the U.S. Census Bureau’s
fi nely calibrated timetable
for the 10-year count.
Monday was the deadline
to start printing the 600 mil-
lion documents that will be
mailed to 130 million house-
holds for next April’s census
count.
For months, the Trump
administration had argued
that the courts needed to
decide quickly whether the
citizenship question could
be added to the 2020 cen-
sus because of the looming
deadline.
“I think it’s very import-
ant to fi nd out if somebody
is a citizen as opposed to an
illegal,” Trump told report-
ers Monday. “There’s a big
difference to me between
being a citizen of the United
States and being an illegal.”
The U.S. Supreme Court
ruled last week that the
AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File
Nana Gyamfi , executive director of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration, left, reads a state-
ment as Gustavo Torres, right, executive director of CASA, an advocacy group for the immi-
grant community, stands with his activists, after the Supreme Court put a hold on the Trump
administration’s eff ort to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census, on Capitol Hill.
question couldn’t be added
for now. Trump tweeted that
he had asked lawyers if the
count can be delayed until
the court can reevaluate the
matter.
Julie Iriondo, a bureau
spokeswoman, said early
Monday that she didn’t
know if any printing sched-
ule changes had been
decided.
From a logistical stand-
point, any delay “would
be a nightmare,” said John
Thompson, who served
as Census Bureau direc-
tor during President Barack
Obama’s second term.
The bureau is already
in the process of signing
almost 250 offi ce leases
across the U.S. and has hired
1,500 specialists who part-
ner with community organi-
zations to encourage people
to participate in the census.
More than 170,000 recruits
have already fi lled out
applications for the almost
half-million positions being
created for the count. The
bureau has helped set up
more than 1,500 committees
nationwide that will work to
get everyone to respond.
Furthermore,
Con-
gress would have to change
the law for the count to be
delayed because Title 13
of the U.S. Code mandates
that it take place on April 1,
2020, Thompson said.
“I don’t think there’s any
ambiguity, but I’m not a
lawyer,” Thompson said.
Fewer
people
are
expected to fi ll out the ques-
tionnaires using paper than
in years past because the
bureau for the fi rst time is
relying on most respon-
dents to use the internet
to answer questions. Still,
printed postcards and letters
will be sent out next March
reminding residents it’s time
to answer the questionnaire,
and those who don’t respond
digitally will be mailed
paper questionnaires.
As recently as last week,
the Trump administration’s
solicitor general wrote in
court papers that the Census
Bureau needed to fi nalize
the questions by June. Any
changes to the paper ques-
tionnaire after June would
impair the bureau’s ability
to conduct the count in a
timely manner, wrote Noel
Francisco.
A spokesman for R.R.
Donnelley & Sons, the com-
pany awarded the $114 mil-
lion printing contract for the
2020 census, didn’t respond
to an email seeking com-
ment Monday.
If there’s a delay, R.R.
Donnelley & Sons may have
to pay workers overtime and
run the presses longer hours,
but the questionnaires will
get printed, said James
Clement, an equity research
analyst for the Buckingham
Research Group.
In a worst case, scenario,
the nation’s biggest printing
companies have underuti-
lized presses, he added.
“If there are delays, it
becomes a hassle, maybe,
but it’s not like the job isn’t
going to get done,” Clement
said Monday.
More than two dozen
Democratic U.S. senators
last week sent a letter urging
U.S. Commerce Secretary
Wilbur Ross to drop any
further pursuit of the citi-
zenship question because it
will delay the bureau’s abil-
ity to conduct the count.
“The 2020 Census is less
than half a year away, and
any unnecessary delay in
operations would impact the
ability of the Census Bureau
to count every person in our
country,” the letter said.
Thompson said the pace
of the legal system may have
an unintended consequence
if Trump wants to delay the
count until the U.S. Supreme
Court makes another deci-
sion: The president may be
out of offi ce if he loses the
2020 election.
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