America is about to find out where its heart is.

Concerns about the virus's spread caused the Census Bureau to suspend field operations in March and April and push back deadlines, including for wrapping up the head count from the end of July to the end of October. Before Dillingham's testimony, four former Census Bureau directors who had served under Democratic and Republican presidents testified, as did a law professor. All the former Census Bureau directors said yes, and Eastman said no. Gomez said Trump's order last week showed what the administration's true purpose was in trying to obtain citizenship information. Thompson, who served as a director of the Census Bureau in the Obama administration, said he worried the president's order would reduce participation in the census by people in hard-to-count communities, including noncitizens and immigrants.