THE BREAKDOWN
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From the Rose Garden, President Donald Trump announced that the White House was ending efforts to place a citizenship question on the next census and instead ordered all federal agencies “to provide the Department of Commerce with all requested records regarding the number of citizens and non-citizens in our country … immediately.”
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- The abrupt about-face comes two weeks after the Supreme Court ruled against the question’s legality. Dale Ho, an ACLU official involved in the case, called Trump’s decision “nothing short of a total, humiliating defeat for him and his administration.”
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- “The Census Bureau projected that using previously available records, it could determine citizenship for 90 percent of our population or more,” Trump said, explaining that his order will produce “an accurate account of how many citizens, noncitizens and illegal aliens are in the United States.”TH
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