President Trump is pulling back on efforts to include a question about citizenship on the 2020 census and is instead directing all federal agencies to give the Commerce Department all records regarding the number of citizens and noncitizens in the country, Trump announced Thursday.

“Today, I’m here to say we are not backing down on our effort to determine the citizenship status of the United States population,” the president said during remarks in the Rose Garden, confirming earlier reports he would give up on adding the question to the 2020 census.