US Census

A panel of three appellate judges has upheld a lower court order allowing the 2020 head count of every U.S. resident to continue through October.

The Census Bureau is halting its field operations to count the population a month ahead of schedule, the agency’s director announced in a statement Monday night, raising fears of a national undercount.

U.S. Census Bureau director Steven Dillingham testified that he wasn’t informed ahead of time about President Donald Trump’s order seeking to exclude people in the U.S. illegally from the process of redrawing congressional districts.