House Democrats claim White House tried to block Kobach interview
Source: CBS
Democrats on the House Oversight and Reform Committee claim that the White House tried to prevent Kris Kobach from speaking with the committee to discuss the investigation into the citizenship question in the 2020 census. Kobach, the former secretary of state of Kansas, advised the Trump administration on adding the question to the census.
The committee released a memo on the previously undisclosed interview, which occurred on Monday. Democrats on the committee claim that the White House "interfered directly and aggressively" in the interview by instructing Kobach not to answer any questions about his communications with President Trump and White House advisers on "the real reasons they added the citizenship question."
Democrats believe that adding a question about citizenship to the census could lead to undercounting in big cities and other typically Democratic-leaning areas where immigrants reside, which could affect the congressional apportionment for primarily Democratic states.
This suspicion was bolstered by the revelation that a Republican expert on gerrymandering had advocated for adding the question in order to benefit "Republicans and Non-Hispanic Whites." A report released this week found that the census could undercount more than 4 million people, particularly in Latino and African American communities.
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