Rush Limbaugh Falsely Claims Obama Removed Citizenship Questions From U.S. Census
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Rush Limbaugh falsely claimed that Barack Obama took citizenship questions of the census when he was president during a Friday morning appearance on Fox & Friends.
Putting aside Limbaugh’s insinuations about Democrats and their motives on citizenship and immigration, the question is did the Obama Administration take citizenship questions off the 2010 census. The answer is no.
Limbaugh seems to be peddling a false talking point which has become popular on the right: that citizenship questions have been part of every census from 1950 until Obama took them off. However, Fortune notes that although Obama was in office when the 2010 census was sent out without any citizenship questions, Census Bureau records show that they finalized their questions back in 2008 before the 44th president was sworn in.
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