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Hansi Lo Wang
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THREAD: Before boarding Marine One, President Trump emphasized why he thinks relying on gov't records is "actually better" than collecting #CitizenshipQuestion responses -- more than a year after Trump admin officials at DOJ refused to hear from Census Bureau about those records.
2. Trump: "We have information that's probably more accurate than the information we could get by going in and asking somebody, 'Are you a citizen?' A lot of people aren't going to tell the truth."

In January 2018, Census Bureau warned Trump officials👇
apps.npr.org/documents/docu…
3. Trump: "Not only didn't I back down, I backed up ... Anybody else would have given this up a long time ago."

In December 2017, Census Bureau's then-acting head started recommending to Trump admin to go w gov't records instead of #CitizenshipQuestion👇
documentcloud.org/documents/5022…
4. Trump: "The problem is we had 3 very unfriendly courts. They were judges that weren't exactly in love with this whole thing. And they were wrong."

3 fed judges & 5 #SCOTUS justices ruled admin's stated reason for #CitizenshipQuestion was a sham👇
supremecourt.gov/opinions/18pdf…
5. Trump: "In the meantime, we have to, by law, have the printing done. So the printing has started."

4 days before #2020Census printing was scheduled to start, President Trump threatened to delay constitutionally mandated head count of every person in US
6. Trump: "We're already finding out who the citizens are and who they're not, and I think, more accurately."

Yesterday, Trump issued an executive order that says getting access to gov't records on citizenship "remains in negotiation"👇
7. Reporter: "Did Wilbur Ross let you down, Mr. President?"

President Trump: "No, he didn't let me down."

Commerce @SecretaryRoss, whose decision to add #CitizenshipQuestion was blocked by #SCOTUS, stood silently in front of cameras while Trump & the AG spoke for 11 min👇
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Hansi Lo Wang
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NEW: @uscensusbureau is dividing up the U.S. population into 6 different mindsets to guide #2020Census outreach:

- Eager Engagers
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www2.census.gov/programs-surve…
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Hansi Lo Wang
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NEW: 14 Senate Democrats led by Sen. @brianschatz have introduced a bill that would "nullify the effect" of President Trump's executive order directing all federal agencies to share citizenship information requested by the @CommerceGov Dept👇

congress.gov/bill/116th-con…
@brianschatz @CommerceGov 2. @SenBrianSchatz and 16 other Senate Democrats also sent a letter to Commerce @SecretaryRoss & AG William Barr calling President Trump's EO on citizenship records "a blatant effort to collect this information for political & discriminatory purposes"👇

schatz.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/…
@brianschatz @CommerceGov @SenBrianSchatz @SecretaryRoss 3. Sen. @CoryBooker, a co-sponsor of the new bill, has also recently introduced a Senate bill that would ban @uscensusbureau from including citizenship information among data provided to redistricting officials after #2020Census👇

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Hansi Lo Wang
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CENSUS 🤓 ALERT: There’s *another* hearing on Capitol Hill worth watching today. @uscensusbureau Director Steven Dillingham & @USGAO are set to testify at 1 p.m. ET before House @OversightDems @GOPoversight subcommittee. Stand by for live tweets👇

oversight.house.gov/legislation/he…
@uscensusbureau @USGAO @OversightDems @GOPoversight 2. Live stream of 1 p.m. ET House @OversightDems subcommittee hearing led by @RepRaskin on #2020Census preparations👇

@uscensusbureau @USGAO @OversightDems @GOPoversight @RepRaskin 3. Here is @uscensusbureau Director Steven Dillingham's prepared statement for today's House @OversightDems @GOPoversight subcommittee hearing on the #2020Census👇

documentcloud.org/documents/6212…
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