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Trump issues executive order to obtain citizenship data

President Trump issued an executive order Thursday directing the Department of Commerce to collect data about citizenship from government agency records. He said his administration is abandoning its efforts to add a question about citizenship to the 2020 census. CBS News White House correspondent Paula Reid discusses the president's announcement.
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