It’s been a week since the 2020 Census officially stopped collecting responses. The final deadline for the count was moved up to Oct. 16 after the U.S. Supreme Court gave the Trump Administration permission to truncate the decennial count half a month sooner than had been planned.

Now, the government is processing the millions of responses it received. The law says the U.S. Census Bureau must have this data crunched and delivered to the president by December 31, 2020.

But on a press call today, senior Census Bureau officials walked back their commitment to that deadline.

It&rsquo;s been a week since the 2020 Census officially stopped collecting responses. The final deadline for the count was moved up to Oct. 16 after the U.S. Supreme Court gave the Trump Administration permission to truncate the decennial count half a month sooner than had been planned.
Now, the government is processing the millions of responses it received. The law says the U.S. Census Bureau must have this data crunched and delivered to the president by December 31, 2020.
But on a press call today, senior Census Bureau officials walked back their commitment to that deadline.

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