Trump abandoned the idea to include in the census the column "citizenship"

Reported by the Associated Press.

BREAKING: President of Trump https://t.co/Y7cfKVT24O

Instead, as noted, Trump will instruct all federal agencies to provide the US Department of Commerce with comprehensive information regarding the number of citizens and non-citizens of the country.

Earlier, Trump said he was upset by the decision of the US Supreme Court to block the inclusion of "citizenship" in the list of census issues.

In January, the leader said that there were “at least 25,772,342 illegal migrants in the United States”.

According to a number of experts, in the event that the issue under consideration is still included in the list, many non-citizens of the United States will refuse to take part in the population census.

As RIA Novosti explains, the census data in each state will affect, among other things, the distribution of seats in the country's House of Representatives and the federal budget funds for financing a number of programs.