House Oversight Cmte. Chairman Cummings says his panel would vote next week on whether to hold AG Barr and Sec. Ross in contempt after they failed to cooperate with a probe into adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census.
to an investigation into the Trump’s administration’s efforts to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census.
The subpoena was for all 2017 documents, both from within the Department of Justice and with outside entities, regarding the administration's request to add a citizenship question to the census. That list included a memo from James Uthmeier, who served as an attorney to Ross, to John Gore, deputy assistant attorney general at the Justice Department in the fall of 2017.
In the letter, Assistant Attorney General Stephen Boyd wrote that a contempt vote would be"premature" and halt any ongoing cooperation with the committee."The letters last night were case studies in double-speak.
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