Census Bureau sets new target deadline, but judge says it violates court order

By Tyler Van Dyke

Published September 30, 2020 7:01pm ET

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Census Bureau sets new target deadline, but judge says it violates court order — FILE - This March 23, 2018 file photo shows an envelope containing a 2018 census letter mailed to a resident in Providence, R.I., as part of the nation's only test run of the 2020 Census. A Trump administration plan to include a citizenship question on the 2020 Census has prompted legal challenges from many Democratic-led states. But not a single Republican attorney general has sued _ not even from states with large immigrant populations. | (Michelle R. Smith/AP)

As census takers across the country work to collect forms from the remaining 1.6% of households in the United States that have yet to complete them, a tweet from the Census Bureau has increased uncertainty surrounding when it will be completed.

“The Secretary of Commerce has announced a target date of October 5, 2020 to conclude 2020 Census self-response and field data collection operations,” the bureau tweeted Monday.

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