Political meddling at the Census Bureau damages the US statistical system

The Census Bureau released an August 18 brief claiming over 24,000 2020 voter records were noncitizens, but it omitted authors, acknowledgments, and was produced by a team linked to the Trump-aligned America First Policy Institute, prompting experts to label the methodology unreliable. Former Census officials warned that high false-match rates likely inflate the figure, urging the agency to discard the report and highlighting growing political interference that threatens the credibility of demographic and economic statistics.