(CNN) Two years after the President was wowed by the French's military-heavy Bastille Day celebration, Trump finally got his own fete, complete with military flyovers and, controversially, tanks.

But now, Trump is pushing for something bigger, with impacts that will echo over the next decade, as he seeks to add a question related to citizenship to the 2020 census

Despite Trump's own Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross saying the government would proceed with printing the census sans question (that after the Supreme Court ruled they'd need to come up with a better argument), Trump reversed course (by tweet, of course).

Directing his lawyers to " look at every option ," the administration had to meet a Friday afternoon deadline to explain in court what the government plans to do.

So lawyers were at work over the Fourth. "Department of Commerce and the Department of Justice are working very hard on this, even on the 4th of July!" Trump tweeted Thursday.