Democratic-led House votes to hold attorney general, commerce secretary in contempt of Congress over 2020 census citizenship question.
WASHINGTON — The Latest on the House effort to hold Trump administration officials in contempt over :The White House is slamming the Democrat-controlled House’s vote to hold Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in contempt for failing to comply with subpoenas related to a decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census.
Grisham says the departments of Justice and Commerce have produced more than 31,000 pages of documents on the issue, and that senior officials from both agencies have spoken on record to address the matter.Trump last week abandoned his effort to add a citizenship question into the 2020 census after the Supreme Court blocked the move.
The action marks an escalation of Democratic efforts to use their House majority to aggressively investigate the inner workings of the Trump administration. Ross tells the Fox Business Network that his department has supplied more than 14,000 pages of documents related to the 2020 census and excluded only about 15 pages that the administration believes are protected under executive privilege.
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