Project 2025 Tracker / What’s done, what’s next

21. Department of Commerce · Minor

Review the Census partnership program and engage conservative groups

Not started

680 21. Department of Commerce

“Review the partnership program. This program, designed to promote responsiveness to the census by employing trusted voices in various communities, deserves careful scrutiny. A new Administration should work to actively engage with conservative groups and voices to promote response to the decennial census.”

What has happened

  1. Not started

    Nothing found. The Census partnership program was neither reviewed nor redirected in any published document, and nothing records outreach to conservative groups to promote decennial response. The Bureau's outreach machinery was reduced from the other end: the 2030 Census Advisory Committee and the National Advisory Committee, the two bodies through which community partners advised the program, were terminated effective 2025-02-28 (see #1895).

Research log

What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence

Research notes

Cluster negative search CENSUS-1 (chapter log): a jq pass over all 83 in-window Federal Register records whose agency is the Census Bureau — every information-collection notice, every deregulatory rule and every 2030 Census operational notice — plus the DOC/CENSUS slice of reginfo.gov’s Unified Agenda (seven RINs: boundary-date, seal, population-estimate-challenge, decennial-release, personal-data and fee housekeeping), plus grep -i census over nominations.ndjson (0 records) and over presidential-actions.ndjson (0). Also Federal Register full text since 2025-01-20 for "partnership program" restricted to the Commerce Department slug, and for "trusted voices" and "Census partnership".

The termination notice is attached because it is the only dated Primary action on the Bureau’s community-engagement structure in the window, and it cuts against the ask rather than for it.

Action
other
Object
Census Bureau partnership program
ID
1888