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rumor: Trump's Jan. 20 executive order would retroactively revoke Usha Vance's citizenship

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A rumor circulating online in January 2025 claimed that an executive order signed by U.S. President Donald Trump would retroactively revoke the citizenship of Usha Vance , the wife of Vice President JD Vance , as well as for all people born to parents who did not hold citizenship at the time of a child's birth.

This matter pertained to Trump 's executive order, titled " Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship" Snopes contacted the White House by email to ask whether they had a statement to share about this misleading rumor.

The president cannot change the Constitution on his own, so it is not yet clear how Mr. Trump plans to withhold the benefits of citizenship to a group of people born in the United States .

As of this publication, attorneys general from 22 states had already filed lawsuits to block the enforcement of the policy.

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