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Hundreds of thousands of Homeland Security employees have worked without pay since Congress

failed to renew DHS funding last month. That includes TSA agents creating long lines at airports.

President Trump rejected the latest offer funding DHS, except for immigration operations that have become central to

the dispute. Now he's demanding that senators also approve what he calls the Save America

Act, which requires proof of citizenship to vote and has essentially no chance of passing Congress

before lawmakers go on vacation next week. NPR's Sam Greenglass explains.

Trump has continued to amplify false

claims about widespread non-citizen voting, and this was his message to senators today.

You don't have to take a fast vote. Don't worry about Easter going home. In fact, make this one for

Jesus, okay? Trump is making this argument that proof of citizenship is homeland security, and so that's

why the voting bill and DHS funding should be, in his words, welded together.

NPR's Sam Greenglass reporting.

The Census Bureau says it's getting ready to conduct a field test for the 2030 census starting in May.

The plan has its skeptics.

NPR's Hansi-Low Wong reports this year's census test is expected to involve letter carriers from the U.S. Postal Service.

The Census Bureau says it's preparing to ask households in parts of Alabama and South Carolina

to fill out an online survey that's not related to the actual census.

Households that don't may be interviewed in person starting in June by census workers or

letter carriers. It's a kind of move that a government accountability office study in 2011 said

would not be cost effective. This test census asks, is this person a citizen of the United States?

Research shows that's likely to hurt the accuracy

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