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This really is extraordinary. To see this email emerge after statements by Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in March, dismissing suggestions that the Census question re citizenship was driven by politics or White House intervention.
"Has the president or anyone in the White House discussed with you or anyone on your team about adding the citizenship question?" Rep. Grace Meng, D-N.Y., asked Ross on March 20.
"I am not aware of any such," Ross testified..
"We are responding solely to the Department of Justice's request," Ross also said during the March 20 hearing.
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