Sup you beautiful bastards.

Don't be a fantastic Wednesday.

Welcome back to the Philip DeFranco show

and let's just jump into it.

The first thing we're going to talk about today is a story I'm obviously only including

so I can get that sexy, sexy thumbnail.

We're talking census news.

It's obviously not a sexy story, but it is important.

Yesterday we saw the Trump administration dropping its plans to add a citizenship

question to the United States census, a plan that had been very controversial to many.

And for some quick background here,

the U.S. Constitution mandates that every 10 years,

the federal government has to count every person living in the U.S.

And that means every person, whether they are a citizen, a resident, or here illegally.

And for the upcoming census in 2020,

the Trump administration wanted to add a question

that would ask, is this person a citizen of the United States?

And it seems like a simple enough question,

but it was insanely contentious.

In fact, it was so contentious that it eventually went to the Supreme Court.

And experts have said it was the most debated Trump administration

initiative to reach the Supreme Court since the travel ban.

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