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Report: Order to shorten count wasn't made by Census Bureau

by Associated Press
| September 21, 2020 1:03 PM

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The decision to shorten by a month the 2020 head count of every U.S. resident was not made by the U.S. Census Bureau, and some agency officials suspect it was made by the White House or the Department of Commerce, according to a report from the bureau's watchdog agency.

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