Trump Turns To Executive Order To Get Citizenship Information Amid Census Fight The administration has been in a legal fight for more than a year to include a citizenship question on the 2020 census.
Updated at 6 p.m. ET. President Trump announced Thursday he would sign an executive order to obtain data about the U.S. citizenship and noncitizenship status of everyone living in the United States.
In a Rose Garden ceremony, Trump said he would drop efforts to include a citizenship question on the 2020 census.
The executive order marks the administration's latest effort to obtain the information despite a ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court that bars the administration from including the question on the 2020 census for now.
Last month, the Supreme Court blocked the citizenship question from the census for now.
The Census Bureau has continued to recommend against adding the question, which researchers say would produce self-reported responses that are less accurate and more costly to gather compared with existing government records on citizenship.
With just over six months left until the official census kickoff in rural Alaska, any changes to census forms could have jeopardized the final preparations for the count.
https://www.npr.org/2019/07/11/739858115/trump-expected-to-renew-push-for-census-citizenship-question-with-executive-acti
Updated at 6 p.m. ET. President Trump announced Thursday he would sign an executive order to obtain data about the U.S. citizenship and noncitizenship status of everyone living in the United States.
In a Rose Garden ceremony, Trump said he would drop efforts to include a citizenship question on the 2020 census.
The executive order marks the administration's latest effort to obtain the information despite a ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court that bars the administration from including the question on the 2020 census for now.
Last month, the Supreme Court blocked the citizenship question from the census for now.
The Census Bureau has continued to recommend against adding the question, which researchers say would produce self-reported responses that are less accurate and more costly to gather compared with existing government records on citizenship.
With just over six months left until the official census kickoff in rural Alaska, any changes to census forms could have jeopardized the final preparations for the count.
https://www.npr.org/2019/07/11/739858115/trump-expected-to-renew-push-for-census-citizenship-question-with-executive-acti
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