Trump: Stories About Government Dropping Effort to Put Citizenship Question on Census Are ‘Fake’

President Donald Trump boards Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on June 26, 2019. Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images

President Donald Trump said news reports about his administration giving up on its efforts to include a citizenship question on the 2020 census are “fake.”

“The News Reports about the Department of Commerce dropping its quest to put the Citizenship Question on the Census is incorrect or, to state it differently, FAKE!” he wrote on Twitter on July 3.