investigating who ordered a citizenship question to be added to the 2020 census. was it a routine decision by the congress department or a political decision by the white house? critics say a citizenship question will impress the citizen response rate by immigrants which will end up hurting the democratic districts. the contempt vote came hours after the president exerted executive privilege holding back documents. >> for months the trump administration has claimed that the decision to add the citizenship question was made at a department level rather than at the white house. but now the president is asserting executive privilege over all of these documents. this begs the question what is being hidden? >> the commerce secretary called the move an empty stunt and the justice department accused the committee of playing political games. the panel's top republicans said it was really about influencing a supreme court ruling on the