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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,…
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Trump Cries Uncle on Citizenship Question for Census 2020
Looks like Donald Trump blinked. The Justice Department announced Tuesday that there will be no citizenship question on the 2020 census, a week after the U.S. Supreme Court blocked the addition of the question by raising concerns about the reasoning the Trump administration gave for wanting the change. According to the New York Times, the…