Justice
A Last-Gasp Census Conspiracy to Save the Citizenship Question
Fact check: No, President Obama did not remove a citizenship question from the census while he was in office.
President Donald Trump declared a retreat in his administration’s efforts to add a citizenship question to the upcoming census. In a Rose Garden press conference on Thursday, the president said that the government would use existing federal data to capture the citizenship status of the nation, reiterating a plan launched by the Commerce Department last year.
Just a week ago, Trump had insisted that the government would push forward in its efforts to add the controversial question to the census, despite a decision by the Supreme Court in late June blocking the maneuver. But while he abandoned this campaign on Thursday, he did not concede defeat.