In February 2018 he attracted controversy following the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting at a town hall event held by CNN when he was questioned by a survivor of the shooting about the supposed $ 3,303,355 he had received in donations from the NRA . Rubio replied , " I will always accept the help of anyone who agrees with my agenda . " In March 2018 , Rubio defended the decision of the Trump administration to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census . Experts noted that the inclusion of such a question would likely result in severe undercounting of the population and faulty data , as undocumented immigrants would be less likely to respond to the census . Fellow Republican congress members from Florida , Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Mario Diaz-Balart , criticized the Trump administration 's decision on the basis that it would lead to a faulty census and disadvantage Florida in terms of congressional apportionment and fund apportionment
Stoneman Douglas High School shooting
Stoneman Douglas High School shooting
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