Trump abandons effort to add citizenship question to census
2019-07-12 09:52:06 source：Politico
July 11, 2019
President Donald Trump has dropped his effort to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census — a sudden backtrack on one of his administration's biggest legal battles and a swift course reversal after a week of insisting he would fight till the end.
Instead, the president will issue an executive order directing various agencies to obtain citizenship data by tapping existing databases and documents.
"We will leave no stone unturned," Trump declared from the Rose Garden.
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