citizenship census 2020
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Trump Ends Fight to Add Citizenship Question to Census— He’ll Just Comb Through Fed Records to Get That Info
Forget the census, Donald Trump conceded Thursday. The administration will get the citizenship information it wants by scouring existing federal records. That, Trump said, will be the aim of an executive order he’ll issue in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court putting the kibosh on his efforts to add a citizenship question to the…
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Trump Reverses Course—Again—on Citizenship Question for Census 2020
That didn’t last long. Just one day after the Trump administration said the 2020 census forms would be published without a question asking whether people are U.S. citizens, Donald Trump railed (on Twitter, of course) that such reports were “FAKE!” and that his team was “moving forward” on having the question included: Trump’s fervor notwithstanding,…