Trump asserts executive privilege over census documents, delaying Oversight Committee's contempt vote

Donald Trump.
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President Trump has once again asserted executive privilege on Wednesday in response to subpoenas from the House Oversight Committee.

The assertion concerns documents requested by the committee, specifically regarding the Trump administration's desire to include a citizenship question on the 2020 census form.

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Tim O'Donnell

Tim is a staff writer at The Week and has contributed to Bedford and Bowery and The New York Transatlantic. He is a graduate of Occidental College and NYU's journalism school. Tim enjoys writing about baseball, Europe, and extinct megafauna. He lives in New York City.