CENSUS: “We spend — this is another thing that’s so crazy: $20 billion on a census — $20 billion. They spend $20 billion. I said, ’20 billion what?’ Twenty billion dollars on a census.
They go through houses — they go up, they ring doorbells, they talk to people. ‘How many toilets do they have?’ ‘How many desks do they have?’ ‘How many beds?’ ‘What’s their roof made of?’ The only thing we can’t ask is, ‘Are you a citizen of the United States?'”
-Donald Trump on July 11, 2019, “Remarks by President Trump at the Presidential Social Media Summit,” whitehouse.gov, July 12, 2019