ASSOCIATED PRESS Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross will soon be facing scrutiny over his misleading testimony about his decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census. Last week, Democrats officially became the majority party in the House of Representatives, gaining control of the congressional committees that are empowered to investigate the presidency of Donald Trump. There is no shortage of targets for Democrats, but one who will be immediately scrutinized by the newly named House Committee on Oversight and Reform is Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and his misleading testimony about his decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census. A few weeks later, the Commerce Department announced that for the first time in 70 years, the constitutionally mandated census would include a question about citizenship status. However, internal documents made public revealed that Ross was taking steps to add the citizenship question long before the Justice Department’s December 2017 request.

Source: Huffington Post January 06, 2019 16:30 UTC