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"Trump administration seeks to drop race and ethnicity question from next US census" — NPR News · United States
Single sourceThe Trump administration has proposed eliminating questions about race and ethnicity from the 2030 U.S. Census, a break from a practice that has been part of every census since 1790. The change, reportedly part of a broader overhaul of the census, would move race and ethnicity data collection to a separate survey or drop it entirely, which critics say would undermine data used for civil rights enforcement, redistricting, and federal funding allocation.
The claim is well-supported, based on a formal proposal from the Census Bureau first reported by The Wall Street Journal and Politico on September 9, 2026, and subsequently covered by NPR and other outlets. The reporting is close to the primary source (a regulatory filing or internal proposal), and multiple reputable news organizations have independently confirmed the details.
Genuinely new; the proposal was first reported in early September 2026, and today's NPR article is a follow-up analysis as the story develops.
We covered a related proposal on September 11, 2026, when the Trump administration also proposed excluding illegal aliens and foreign visitors from the 2030 census count, another significant change to how the census is conducted.