Census Bureau Must Be 'Totally Objective' On Citizenship Question, Director Says
Responding to President Trump's tweet defending the controversial question, Steven Dillingham says his job will be "to conduct a census whether the question's in there or if it isn't."
by Hansi Lo Wang
Apr 01, 2019
3 minutes
Steven Dillingham, the new director of the U.S. Census Bureau, is refusing to step into the controversy surrounding a potential question for the upcoming national head count.
The hotly contested question asks, "Is this person a citizen of the United States?"
On Monday, the morning of Dillingham's most public debut as the head of the federal government's largest statistical agency, President Trump issued his first tweet about the census and the citizenship question as commander in chief:
"Can you believe that the Radical Left
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