Trump Warns Census Report Without Citizenship Question Will Be 'Meaningless'
- 5 years ago
President Trump weighed in on the citizenship question Monday.
President Trump is insisting that a census report that does not include a question about citizenship status would be "meaningless" and a "waste" of money. "Can you believe that the Radical Left Democrats want to do our new and very important Census Report without the all important Citizenship Question," Trump tweeted on Monday. "Report would be meaningless and a waste of the $Billions (ridiculous) that it costs to put together!" The president's comments come just one day before the "Democrat-led House Oversight and Reform Committee is scheduled to vote to issue subpoenas to Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and Attorney General William Barr over the administration's decision to add a citizenship question to the next census," reports The Hill.
Ross has said he added the citizenship question to the census at the behest of the Justice Department and has denied that the move is politically motivated, notes Politico.
Critics of the inclusion have argued that it could skew census results, which are used to appropriate federal funds, establish voting districts, and determine the number of US Representatives and Electoral College votes allotted to each state. A federal judge has already ruled that the citizenship question cannot be asked. The matter is slated to appear before the US Supreme Court next week.
President Trump is insisting that a census report that does not include a question about citizenship status would be "meaningless" and a "waste" of money. "Can you believe that the Radical Left Democrats want to do our new and very important Census Report without the all important Citizenship Question," Trump tweeted on Monday. "Report would be meaningless and a waste of the $Billions (ridiculous) that it costs to put together!" The president's comments come just one day before the "Democrat-led House Oversight and Reform Committee is scheduled to vote to issue subpoenas to Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and Attorney General William Barr over the administration's decision to add a citizenship question to the next census," reports The Hill.
Ross has said he added the citizenship question to the census at the behest of the Justice Department and has denied that the move is politically motivated, notes Politico.
Critics of the inclusion have argued that it could skew census results, which are used to appropriate federal funds, establish voting districts, and determine the number of US Representatives and Electoral College votes allotted to each state. A federal judge has already ruled that the citizenship question cannot be asked. The matter is slated to appear before the US Supreme Court next week.