Commerce Sec. Ross grilled over role in adding citizenship question to 2020 census.
“The key question we will ask Secretary Ross today is, what was he hiding from the Congress?" Rep. Elijah Cummings said.
“The key question we will ask Secretary Ross today is, what was he hiding from the Congress?" Cummings said."What’s the real reason that Trump wanted to add this unconstitutional question?” Ross added that, ultimately, the Justice Department made a formal request in December 2017 for the Census Bureau to reinstate the citizenship question on the census"for use in Voting Rights Act enforcement," prompting the Census Bureau to initiate"a legal, policy, and programmatic review process to consider alternate means of meeting DOJ’s request.”
Republicans on the Oversight Committee excoriated Democrats, accusing them of politicizing the process and defended the decision to add the question to the census. They also attempted to adjourn the hearing, arguing that it could influence a decision by the Supreme Court, which plans to take up the issue next month.
"The census question will not ask about legal status of the respondent," he said."It simply asks about the factual status, citizen or not, and some questions about where they came from. There's nothing in the census data that can be used by enforcement authorities for immigration or for any other purpose."
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