Trump's hiring freeze has halted local head counts and could threaten the U.S. census

Some towns paid the U.S. Census Bureau to produce new local population counts to try to get more funding. But Trump's hiring freeze derailed their special census plans — and could hurt the 2030 count.

Trump's hiring freeze has halted local head counts and could threaten the U.S. census
In 2016, Donald Trump, as the then-presumptive Republican nominee for U.S. president, addresses a campaign rally at the Grand Park Events Center in Westfield, Ind., where Trump

Some towns paid the U.S. Census Bureau to produce new local population counts to try to get more funding. But Trump's hiring freeze derailed their special census plans — and could hurt the 2030 count.

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