NEW: The Commerce Department Office of Inspector General has found the decision to shorten the #2020Census schedule was not made by the Census Bureau and increases the risk to getting a complete and accurate count.
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2. NEW: Two Census Bureau officials told the @CommerceOIG that they think President Trump's now-blocked apportionment memo played a role in the Trump administration changing its position on whether #2020Census reporting deadlines should be extended.
@CommerceOIG 3. @CommerceOIG says multiple Census Bureau officials "expressed concern about natural disasters that could prevent the completion of data collection" by Sept. 30 -- including COVID-19, wildfires, earthquakes, and hurricanes.
@CommerceOIG 4. The Census Bureau says hitting a 99% resolution rate in every state is an acceptable level of accuracy and completeness, but @CommerceOIG says senior bureau officials "do not know what will occur" if the 99% target isn't met by Sept. 30.
@CommerceOIG 5. UPDATE: @RepMaloney (D-NY), chair of House @OversightDems, calls the new Commerce Department inspector general's report the "latest red flag" that keeping to the shortened #2020Census schedule "will degrade" the count.
@CommerceOIG @RepMaloney @OversightDems 6. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen of NH, top Democrat on Senate appropriations subcommittee that funds the U.S. Census Bureau, responds to the Commerce IG report on the shortened #2020Census schedule:
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