介绍： After a long effort to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census, the Trump administration says it's done trying. Speaking at the White House yesterday, President Trump blamed his opponents on the left.
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PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I'm proud to be a citizen. You're proud to be...

介绍： After a long effort to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census, the Trump administration says it's done trying. Speaking at the White House yesterday, President Trump blamed his opponents on the left.
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PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I'm proud to be a citizen. You're proud to be a citizen. The only people who are not proud to be citizens are the ones who are fighting us all the way about the word citizen.
MARTIN: So even though the president has stopped fighting to try to get the question on the census, he is now trying to get the information a different way.
NPR's Hansi Lo Wang is with us now. Hansi, what's he going to do? What's the administration going to do to try to get the citizenship information?
HANSI LO WANG, BYLINE: President Trump says the administration is going to do what the Census Bureau recommended it to do to begin with, which is if they wanted to have more detailed citizenship data, then to use administrative records or existing government records from various federal agencies, including the Social Security Administration, Department of Homeland Security — that that data would be more accurate than collecting self-reported responses to a citizenship question.

长期以来，特朗普政府一直努力将公民身份问题纳入2020年人口普查中，但现在政府表示要放弃这一计划。昨天，特朗普总统在白宫发表讲话并抨击了左翼反对者。
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唐纳德·特朗普总统：我为自己是美国公民而自豪，你们也为此而自豪。唯一不为此自豪的，是那些为“公民”这个词与我们斗争的人。
马丁：尽管总统已经放弃将公民身份问题纳入人口普查，但现在他试图用另一种方式来获取信息。
NPR新闻的王汉斯将和我们连线。汉斯，他有什么计划？政府要如何获得公民身份信息？
王汉斯连线：特朗普总统表示，政府将采纳美国人口调查局最开始的建议，即如果政府想获得更详细的公民身份信息，那可以使用美国社会安全局和国土安全局等联邦机构的行政记录或现有政府记录，相比于收集自行报告的公民身份回答，联邦机构的记录信息要更加准确。