A senior House Democrat is threatening to subpoena Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross over the Commerce Department’s failure to release documents related to the 2020 Census, saying anomalies in the survey are “more serious than first reported” and blasting the department for ignoring requests for information.
In a scathing letter to Ross on Wednesday, House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-N.Y.) said three internal documents showed that “career officials have now identified at least 15 anomalies that impact more than one million Census records.”
The letter, which comes a day before a committee hearing is scheduled on the matter, excoriated Ross for repeatedly dodging requests for information about the census in recent weeks and over the course of his tenure.
“Your failure to cooperate with the Committee’s investigation appears to be part of a dangerous pattern of obstruction with the Census,” Maloney wrote, later adding, “You personally have played a key role in blocking the production of information to the Committee regarding the Trump Administration’s efforts to politicize the 2020 Census—even after it was subpoenaed.”
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