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President-elect Donald Trump revived talk of abolishing birthright citizenship during an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Dec. 8, saying he was “absolutely” going to end the policy. Trump also raised the issue in his first presidential campaign in 2016, but he never followed through with a promised executive order to challenge the longstanding interpretation of the 14th Amendment, which grants citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States.”
Host Kristen Welker asked Trump whether he still planned to end birthright citizenship through “an executive action” that reinterprets the 14th Amendment — as he promised in a 2023 campaign video — rather than through a constitutional amendment, as most legal scholars believe it would require.
“Well, we’re going to have to get it changed,” Trump said. “We’ll maybe have to go back to the people. But we have to end it.”