JUST IN: After President Trump tweets, government reverses course on citizenship census question.
Dareh Gregorian and Adam Edelman
“We are absolutely moving forward, as we must, because of the importance of the answer to this question,” Trump added. The judge ordered an update by 2 p.m. ET Friday, and suggested that if he were not satisfied, he could issue an order barring the citizenship question from being asked.Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said in a statement Tuesday that the Census Bureau has started printing the decennial questionnaires without the question, saying that he “strongly" disagreed with the high court's ruling.
The director of the Census Bureau, Dr. Steven Dillingham, will testify before the House Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties about the status of the agency's planning and preparations for the 2020 census, the panel's chairman, Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., said Wednesday.Rep. Grace Meng, D-N.Y.
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