irregularities that were discovered while crunching data from the 2020 census on a shortened schedule.The census not only decides how many congressional seats each state gets based on population, but it also determines the distribution of $1.5 trillion in federal funding each year.The earliest date the apportionment numbers will be ready is Feb.
9, as the Census Bureau fixes anomalies discovered during data processing, according to Department of Justice, which is representing the Commerce Department and Census Bureau in a lawsuit filed by a coalition of municipalities and advocacy groups in federal court in San Jose, California.If that date holds, the Census Bureau will not finish processing the numbers until several weeks after Trump.