Trump expected to announce order to allow citizenship question on census – live

Trump expected to announce executive action after a loss in court Government could begin immigration raids on SundaySign up for the US briefing and get a new perspective 3.00pm BST Trump has been very active on Twitter this morning. In the same tweet, he previewed the White House social media summit and possible executive action on the US census. The White House will be hosting a very big and very important Social Media Summit today. Would I have become President without Social Media? Yes (probably)! At its conclusion, we will all go to the beautiful Rose Garden for a News Conference on the Census and Citizenship. 2.35pm BST Trump’s social media summit this afternoon is not open to the press, but we have some ideas based on who is bragging online. Here’s more from our story:The White House has released few details about Thursday’s event, but the meeting is the latest move from the Trump administration in response to its claims of bias against conservative voices on social media platforms. In May, the White House launched a tool to allow users to report if they felt they had been censored on websites such as Facebook and Twitter.But the Trump administration did not include any representatives from major social media firms – including Facebook, Twitter, or Google – to the event Thursday, instead inviting a mix of inflammatory internet personalities including rightwing Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe, pro-Trump activist Bill Mitchell, college Republican activist Charlie Kirk, and Ben Garrison, a rightwing cartoonist who agreed not to attend amid widespread criticism from one of his virulently antisemitic cartoons. Continue reading…
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