Trump mulling executive order on census citizenship question

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President Trump is deliberating an executive order that would require the Commerce Department to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census. The move comes two days after the White House said it would accept a Supreme Court defeat and not include the question.

“So important for our Country that the very simple and basic ‘Are you a Citizen of the United States?’ question be allowed to be asked in the 2020 Census. Department of Commerce and the Department of Justice are working very hard on this, even on the 4th of July!” Trump tweeted Thursday.

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