Trump Expected To Take Executive Action In Census Fight
by Hansi Lo Wang
Jul 11, 2019
3 minutes
Updated at 3:40 p.m. ET
President Trump is expected to take executive action to try to obtain data about U.S. citizenship status, a source familiar with the matter tells NPR. It's unclear whether that means his administration will continue or drop the push to add a controversial question about citizenship to the 2020 census.
The administration has been in a legal fight for more than a year to include the question, which has been blocked by the Supreme Court for now.
The question asks, "Is this person a citizen of the United States?"
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