President Donald Trump wants a new census .  

If by this he means a snap-census before the scheduled 2030 survey, he’s demanding that the federal government undertake a gargantuan task with minimal planning and no discernible source of funding. 

In statistical terms, it’d be like launching D-Day with a month’s lead time. 

If the White Queen believes six impossible things before breakfast, that the Census Bureau could pull this off would qualify as one of them. 

The agency couldn’t even competently conduct the last, regularly scheduled census in 2020. 

Given that conducting the census is a core function of the federal government — indeed, mandated by the Constitution — it is outrageous that the last survey missed so badly.

It undercounted Florida and other red states (as well as Ill

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