President says ‘we are absolutely moving forward’ – contradicting earlier administration statements that the plan had been dropped
Donald Trump has said he plans to move ahead with adding a contentious citizenship question to the 2020 US census, contradicting statements made a day earlier by his own administration – including the commerce secretary, Wilbur Ross – that the plan had been dropped.
After Trump’s announcement, made in a Twitter post, a senior US justice department lawyer told a Maryland-based federal judge overseeing litigation in the matter that the administration was seeking a “path forward” to add a citizenship question after the supreme court last Thursday blocked it.
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