Rep. Elijah Cummings urged Wilbur Ross to further back up why he pushed for a citizenship question on the 2020 census
House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings on Friday urged Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross to agree by Monday to provide additional documents detailing why the Trump appointee added a citizenship question to the 2020 census.that Ross has repeatedly snubbed the committee on document requests related to the contentious 2020 census question.
By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or alerts from POLITICO. You can unsubscribe at any time. Cummings' letter stated the committee has been repeatedly shortchanged in its requests for documents that could elucidate the secretary's motivations for adding a citizenship question. Several emails provided to the committee were fully or mostly redacted, and the department said it had provided documents that the committee never received, the letter said.
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