Trump administration drops citizenship question from 2020 census

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The Trump administration announced that it would no longer pursue adding a question about citizenship to the 2020 census days after a Supreme Court loss on the matter.

Justice Department attorney Kate Bailey said in a Tuesday email that the census questionnaire would proceed, sans the citizenship question.

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