NEW YORK — New York officials claimed victory Tuesday in their fight against the Trump administration’s plan to question Americans about their citizenship on the 2020 census — but the president hasn’t thrown in the towel.

City and state officials hailed the federal government’s decision to print the decennial census questionnaire without a citizenship question, which they cast as a political attack on immigrants.

“Today’s news is a victory for New York State, for America, and for every single person in this nation,” state Attorney General Letitia James, a Democrat whose office helped lead the legal fight against the question, said in a statement Tuesday.

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“While the Trump Administration may have attempted to politicize the census and punish cities and states across the nation, justice prevailed, and the census will continue to remain a tool for obtaining an accurate count of our population.”

But Trump said Wednesday that reports of the U.S. Department of Commerce abandoning the question were “FAKE!” And the Justice Department said the same day that it was trying to restore the question under Trump’s orders despite telling lawyers a day earlier that the census would be printed without it, according to The New York Times.

“We are absolutely moving forward, as we must, because of the importance of the answer to this question,” Trump said on Twitter.

Trump’s tweet prompted James to accuse the president of trying “to sow chaos and confusion.”

The reversal came days after the Supreme Court blocked the government from putting the question on the census form because the U.S. Department of Commerce seemed to offer a “contrived” reason for asking it. New York State was the lead respondent in the case.

The Commerce Department purportedly sought to add the question at the request of the Justice Department because the agency wanted citizenship data to help it enforce the Voting Rights Act. But Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross had pushed for the question since he took office and asked the attorney general if the Justice Department would request it, according to the Supreme Court’s decision.

New York leaders worried that a citizenship question would discourage participation in the census, leading to an undercount of the state’s population that could cut its federal funding and representation in Congress.

“Every single person who stood up, spoke out and fought back against @realDonaldTrump’s racist citizenship question owns a piece of this victory,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said Tuesday on Twitter. “Now let’s make sure EVERYONE who calls this city home is counted next year.”

Wednesday’s about-face came after Trump targeted James and Gov. Andrew Cuomo in Twitter tirades on Monday and Tuesday. James — whom Trump did not name in his tweets — used the news to fire back at the president in her own post.

“Sorry for not responding to your tweet earlier, Mr. President,” she tweeted Tuesday. “We were a little busy standing up for the true values of our nation, and fighting for liberty & justice for all.”