President Donald Trump will no longer pursue adding a question on citizenship to the 2020 US census questionnaire, APA reports citing BBC.
Instead, he said he had directed officials to obtain the information through an executive order for government agencies, as court challenges would have delayed a census.
"We will leave no stone unturned," Mr Trump said.
The retreat follows a long fight over the inclusion of the question, which the Supreme Court had blocked in June.
"We are not backing down on our effort to determine the citizenship status of the United States population," the US president said.
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