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On the recordSeptember 9, 2020
Do you think people that look like you and I are going to--I mean, that it is intentional on the part of the--reducing the timeline that it is intentional to make sure that people that look like you and I are not counted?
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Rashida Tlaib
Democratic · Michigan

Editor's note · Context

Tlaib questions whether the timeline reduction for the census is designed to disenfranchise certain communities.

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