Hi, this is Josh Marshall, and this is the Josh Marshall podcast.

Today we are talking about something that we, a lot of us, don't think about a lot except you hear about it every

ten years the US Census and it seems like the most sort of perfunctory, you know, you're counting all the people up and collecting some data, but it actually has,

I think we all know it's important, but under the Trump administration, before the Trump administration, but especially

under the Trump administration, it's become highly politicized in some really key ways.

And that's what we're going to talk about today.

I'm joined by our colleague Tierney Sneed.

Hello.

Hi, how are you?

Yeah, nice to be in the studio.

Yeah, Tierney works out of our DC office and we record the podcast out of our New York office,

but she's up here actually for a trial about the census.

And we're going to talk about that in a minute

here with my colleague David Tainter.

Hey Josh.

Hey, how you doing?

Good.

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