PITTSBURGH (Newsradio 1020 KDKA) - The City of Pittsburgh has joined a coalition to take legal action against the Trump administration for what they call "impairment of the 2020 Decennial Census."
The Bureau moved up the original deadline for data collection from October 31 to September 30. The coalition says the new deadline hinders efforts to conduct the census, calling it a "rush plan" in court documents filed in an effort to stop the timeline from being moved up.
May Bill Peduto said, “Pittsburgh and other cities are faced with being undercounted this fall due to these Trump Administration moves, and we are doing all we can to fight for the full representation our residents deserve.”
In a release, Peduto's office said an undercount would "harm the accuracy of the population count," deprive states of representation in Congress for a decade and affect billions of dollars in federal funding.
The coalition consists of 23 attorneys general for California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin as well as the District of Columbia, five cities, four counties, and the U.S. Conference of Mayors.
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