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Trump Claims Census Question on Citizenship Still Alive

Ken Bredemeier

   WASHINGTON - U.S. President Donald Trump contended Wednesday that the
   government will still try to ask a question about citizenship in the
   once-a-decade census in 2020, a day after top officials announced they
   had given up on including the citizenship question following a Supreme
   Court ruling on the matter last week.

   "The News Reports about the Department of Commerce dropping its quest
   to put the Citizenship Question on the Census is incorrect or, to state
   it differently, FAKE!" Trump claimed on Twitter. "We are absolutely
   moving forward, as we must, because of the importance of the answer to
   this question."

     The News Reports about the Department of Commerce dropping its quest
     to put the Citizenship Question on the Census is incorrect or, to
     state it differently, FAKE! We are absolutely moving forward, as we
     must, because of the importance of the answer to this question.
     -- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) [1]July 3, 2019

   But his comment sowed confusion about the inclusion of the question,
   coming after both the Department of Justice and the Commerce Department
   said they had abandoned the effort for the census that starts April 1.
   The government has said it already has started printing the
   questionnaires this week in order to have them all ready for use in
   nine months.

References

   1. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1146435093491277824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

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