After years of census meddling by former President Donald Trump’s administration, the Democrat-led U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill Thursday that could help protect the 2030 census and other future national head counts from any additional political interference.
The legislation includes multiple safeguards for the once-a-decade tally that’s used to redistribute political representation and federal funding to communities across the country.
Under the Ensuring a Fair and Accurate Census Act, the president would be allowed to remove the Census Bureau director only for “inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office” and the Government Accountability Office would have to check that all questions on census forms have been studied and tested.
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