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Trump Administration Drops Effort to Add Citizenship Question to 2020 Census

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The Trump administration said Tuesday that it would be printing forms for the 2020 census without a question asking about citizenship, abandoning its quest to add the query after being blocked last week by the Supreme Court.

The decision is a victory for critics who said the question was part of an administration effort to skew the census results in favor of Republicans.

This is a developing story. Check back for updates.

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