New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and city Council Speaker Christine Quinn are blasting a Census Bureau decision not to count same-sex couples, saying it will make it harder for the city to balance its budget.

Quinn, a lesbian, is the second highest elected official in New York City.

The next census will take place in 2010, but in July the bureau said it would report legally married same-sex couples as unmarried.

The bureau blamed the federal Defense of Marriage Act, which bars the federal government from any recognition of gay and lesbian couples.