Trump Tells Administration to ‘Do Whatever is Necessary’ to Add Citizenship Question to Census

President Donald Trump speaks while participating in a border funding legislation signing ceremony in the Oval Office of the White House on July 1, 2019. Jonathan Ernst/Reuters

President Donald Trump said that he’s instructed two federal agencies to continue trying to add a question about citizenship to the 2020 Census after news circulated that the census would be printed without the question.

“A very sad time for America when the Supreme Court of the United States won’t allow a question of ‘Is this person a Citizen of the United States?’ to be asked on the #2020 Census!” Trump said in a post on Twitter late July 2.