What to Know About the Citizenship Lists Trump Wants to Create
President Trump is working on creating state-specific lists of citizens to identify eligible voters. His administration has acknowledged that these lists may not be reliable. This initiative follows an executive order signed by Trump in March, which urged states to utilize federal databases for this purpose.
- ▪President Trump aims to create individual citizenship lists by state.
- ▪The administration has admitted that these lists could be unreliable.
- ▪This effort follows an executive order from March calling for the use of federal databases.
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