The feds on Tuesday said 2020 Census forms would be printed without the citizenship question that Team Trump had insisted on — a short-term victory for those opposing its inclusion.

A Justice Department lawyer said in a memo that production would start on the forms without the question, which foes said was designed to intimidate illegal immigrants and green-card holders from participating.

“We can confirm that the decision has been made to print the 2020 Decennial Census questionnaire without a citizenship question, and that the printer has been instructed to begin the printing process,” Kate Bailey wrote to the lawyers for plaintiffs challenging the inclusion of the question.

The decision came in the aftermath of a Supreme Court ruling on June 27 that faulted the administration for its original attempt to add the item.

President Trump said Monday the administration was looking “very strongly” at delaying the Census.

“Seems totally ridiculous that our government, and indeed Country, cannot ask a basic question of Citizenship in a very expensive, detailed and important Census, in this case for 2020,” Trump tweeted.

“Can anyone really believe that as a great Country, we are not able the ask whether or not someone is a Citizen.”

The Census is used to allocate federal funding for many programs, and to determine how many seats each state gets in the House of Representatives.

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, whose department oversees the Census, said Tuesday, “I respect the Supreme Court but strongly disagree with its ruling regarding my decision to reinstate a citizenship question on the 2020 Census.”

With Post wires