A U.S. House Democrat who oversees funding for the U.S. Census Bureau said on Tu...
WASHINGTON - A U.S. House Democrat who oversees funding for the U.S. Census Bureau said on Tuesday he would not support money being spent to reprint forms if the Trump administration won court approval to include a contentious question on citizenship.
Serrano said he has “no intention of allowing this flagrant waste of money,” urging U.S. President Donald Trump to give up his fight to add a question about citizenship to the decennial population survey. Civil rights groups and some states strongly object to the citizenship question proposal, calling it a Republican ploy to scare immigrants into not participating. That would lead to a population undercount in Democratic-leaning areas with high immigrant populations. The census is used to allot seats in the House of Representatives and to distribute $800 billion in federal services such as schools.
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