Robert Santos, who emphasized inclusive and public relations with overlooked communities, has decided to withdraw as director of the US Census Bureau, in the middle of his five -year term and in the middle of planning the 2030 census, which will determine the political power and the financing of the federal government for another decade.
Santos, who was appointed by former democratic President Joe Biden, said in a letter on Thursday evening that he had made the decision “after a deep reflection”. Santos was sworn in in 2022 as the 26th director of the office and his first Hispanian guide.
His planned departure is the way for the Republican President Donald Trump, to change the management of the agency as its allies in the congress and among the GOP general lawyers of GOP general lawyers in order to exclude people in the US to share under states.
A Republican redistribution expert wrote that the apply of population in the election age instead of the total population could be advantageous for the purpose of redirecting congress and legislative districts for republicans and non-Hispanic white. The number of census also directs the distribution of 2.8 trillion dollars of federal dollars to the states for roads, health care and other programs.
Civil rights groups asked Trump on Friday to appoint an impartial leader in order to lead the country’s largest statistical authority.
“The integrity of the US Census Bureau must remain over the party political influence and ensure that data acquisition and reporting continue to serve the American people with accuracy, transparency and fairness,” says a explanation of the management conference on civil and human rights.
In addition to planning the census of 2030, Santos and other office leaders supervised the changes to the questionnaires for the next once a decades and the annual American community survey in relation to sexual orientation and gender identity as well as breed and ethnicity.
For the first time, questions about sexual orientation and the gender identity for the annual survey from 2027 were planned to American life. The office also implemented a guideline of the bidges to combine questions about breed and ethnicity and add a modern category of the Middle East and North Africa.
During his term in office, Santos emphasized the restoration of trust to the census office after Trump’s first term. Many census observers were of the opinion that Trump’s government tried to politicize the census of 2020 by installing a immense number of political representatives in the agency, and through failed efforts to illegally prevent people in the USA from counting on the division.
The fourteenth change says that “the entire number of people in every state” should be counted for the figures for the division.
Before Santos entered Census Bureau, he was Vice President and Chief Methodologist at the Urban Institute and had spent four decades in survey research, statistical design and analysis and management at management level. Born in Texas, he said in his letter that he wanted to spend time with his family in retirement.
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The story was corrected to show that Robert Santos decided to step down as director of the US Census Bureau instead of having resigned from the agency.
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