Updated at 5:35 p.m. ET
House Speaker Paul Ryan pushed back on Tuesday on President Trump’s claim that he can strip birthright citizenship from the U.S. via executive order, saying such a move would be “unconstitutional.”
“Well, you obviously cannot do that,” Ryan told radio station WVLK in Kentucky. “You cannot end birthright citizenship with an executive order.”
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